Weekly News Roundup Archives

Health Catalyst Editors

January 17, 2020

Weekly News Roundup: January 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will play an even bigger role in healthcare in 2020. In this week's news roundup: AI and machine learning trends; why AI in healthcare is primarily a change management problem; how Christiana Care is personalizing the "black box" of machine learning; and much more.

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January 10, 2020

Weekly News Roundup: January 10, 2020

Healthcare is moving towards an era of personalized medicine in which providers customize treatments for the individual patient. In this week's news roundup: How data-driven precision medicine individualizes treatment; who will benefit from precision medicine; and the major barriers to implementing precision medicine programs.

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December 20, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: December 20, 2019

With 2019 coming to a close, cutting costs will be top of mind in 2020 for most healthcare organizations. This week's news roundup focuses on financial alignment: three strategies for healthcare financial transformation; managing the most expensive patients; tactics to drive revenue cycle efficiency; and healthcare's pricing problems explained in four charts.

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November 22, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: November 22, 2019

As the need for data-driven improvement becomes more urgent, health systems are finding that their current approaches to data management and analytics are failing to keep up. Organizations must evolve towards a broad data management solution to satisfy healthcare's increasing demands for data storage and near-real time insights.

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November 8, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: November 8, 2019

In this new, data-rich healthcare environment, clinicians have greater abilities than ever to provide tailored treatments for specific patients's needs. However, personalized healthcare is easier said than done. In this week's news roundup: how real-world data can help advance clinical trials; the power of analytics and AI in the new era of personalized medicine; four trends to make precision medicine possible; and more.

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November 1, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: November 1, 2019

The healthcare industry is under scrutiny for its treatment of different groups including residents, women in leadership (or lack thereof), and the LGBTQ+ community. In this week's news roundup: how health systems can leverage data to improve care delivery to the LGBTQ+ community; female residents report higher rates of discrimination leading to higher rates of burnout; how to improve the skewed ratio of entry level female employees to the number of women at the top in the healthcare industry; and a new alliance in the Northwest focuses on achieving health equity in seven states over the next two years.

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October 25, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: October 25, 2019

Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on technology to help improve efficiency, reduce costs, and advance surgical outcomes. In this week's news roundup: prehabilitation and the power of healthcare analytics; four things patients can do to make surgery go more smoothly; big data and healthcare decision making; and how prehabilitation can lower episode costs under bundled payment models.

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October 18, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: October 18, 2019

Optimizing the patient experience and improving patient outcomes are two top priorities for many healthcare organizations in 2019. In this week's news roundup: the top five recommendations for improving the patient experience; how technology is improving patient experiences; data-driven patient engagement solutions for payers; and more.

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October 11, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: October 11, 2019

Health systems are facing increasing pressure to deliver cost savings. To build sustainability, healthcare organizations must identify waste and reduce the total cost of care. In this week's news roundup: why activity-based costing is healthcare's secret to doing more with less; why more hospitals are calculating actual cost of care; and more.

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September 20, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: September 20, 2019

Healthcare data security is complex issue, and the industry has been slow in determining how to handle new technology. In this week's news roundup: improving healthcare data security with AI; advertising, Amazon, and artificial intelligence; Google's controversial takeover of DeepMind Health; and, confusing laws and bad actors just some of the challenges facing healthcare data safety and patient privacy.

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September 6, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: September 6, 2019

Today's healthcare CIOs risk becoming marginalized from other members of their organization’s leadership when they focus too narrowly on technology and don’t engage with their peers’ strategic goals. This week's news roundup is about what the new healthcare CIO looks like: the new pressures and opportunities they face; five questions to improve strategic engagement; and, tough AI questions with surprisingly simple answers.

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August 30, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: August 29, 2019

As value-based care continues to grow, driving innovations and new risk arrangements, population health remains a high priority. In this week's news roundup: why the right tools matter for succeeding in population health management; uniting social determinants of health and data for population health; and how adult population health is being effectively addressed in pediatric settings.

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August 23, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: August 23, 2019

In this week's news roundup: six need-to-know guidelines for successful care management; the three must-have qualities of a care management system; and why skilled nursing facilities need to stop thinking of themselves as targets for cuts, and get creative.

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August 16, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: August 16, 2019

This week's news roundup is all about healthcare quality measures: how evolving CMS quality measures are moving towards patient-centered care; making alternative payment models truly value based; why the new CMS Primary Care Models have implications for serious illness care; and what changes medical groups want for the CMS Patients Over Paperwork program.

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August 9, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: August 9, 2019

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are a triple threat on the healthcare court with their combined medical center, education, and research sections. With a unique set of resources, AMCs have the ability to take a comprehensive, holistic approach to patient care. However, one of the challenges they still face is effectively utilizing healthcare analytics. In this week's news roundup: How AMCs can leverage three areas of healthcare analytics, boost population health management, and automate artificial intelligence for medical decision making. Plus, why AMCs are adapting new business models.

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August 2, 2019

Weekly News Roundup: August 2, 2019

Data drives healthcare improvement and is an imperative resource for navigating a changing healthcare landscape. But healthcare data is complex, and it can be difficult to leverage. This week's news roundup is all about healthcare data management: Three principles of using data to its full potential; how data ethics is now a strategic business weapon; what you need to know about "dark data"; and, four critical phrases of healthcare data governance.

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