Technology
Computer Vision & Analytics are Transforming Medical Imaging
(3 minute read) As a physician and a specialist in health information technology, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology in healthcare. One such technology that has been making waves in recent years is computer vision. This powerful tool,...
Unleashing Precision Medicine to Deliver Personalized Care
(5 minute read) Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a modern approach to healthcare that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. This approach allows doctors and researchers to predict more...
Turn and Face the Strange, Changes
Implementing change in a healthcare setting is a complex endeavor, with the challenges varying significantly between staff who provide direct patient care and those who do not. For those providing direct patient care, changes in processes and workflows can directly...
Maximizing Hospital Assets with Predictive Analytics
Analytics has revolutionized how we approach various business and healthcare management. In healthcare, efficiently utilizing resources such as facilities, equipment, and staff is critical to providing the best medical care to patients. Limited resources, however,...
What Gerrymandering Teaches Us About Population Health
The 2016 election yielded 13 Republican and five Democratic congressmen representing the state of Pennsylvania. Although Republican congressional candidates won about 50% of the statewide vote, they currently hold 72% of the available House seats. In a country of “one...
Unlocking Personalized Medicine Through Interoperability
As medicine marches toward its embrace of personalized medicine and immunotherapy, researchers struggle to obtain meaningful discoveries that can be applied to the ever-expanding number of patient cohorts. The growth in the understanding and use of genetic testing...
Reining in Rising Drug Spending in the U.S.
Although overall healthcare cost inflation remains relatively small, healthcare spending just passed 18 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product at the end of 2015. Because of the size of healthcare as a component of the nation’s expenditures, this continued...
Why Healthcare Can’t Afford Bad Jobs
For almost 50 years, provider organizations got a free ride. Unlike other industries that faced market disruptions that required constant adjustment to survive, healthcare existed as a fairly stable, predictable industry. As provider organizations expanded services,...