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Unifying Data and Streamlining Service Delivery for a Health Benefits Administrator
Jul 21st, 2023Challenge Our client, a full-service Third-Party Administrator (TPA), serving a significant number of lives across multiple employer groups, faced a series of operational and technological challenges. Their growth strategy, involving the acquisition of multiple TPAs, led to a decentralized and siloed IT landscape, resulting in increased operational costs and complex data management. Their outdated legacy […]
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How Better Management of Wearables Data Can Lead to Better Clinical Outcomes
Sep 1st, 2022From counting steps to remote monitoring, how we deal with the building mountain of wearable data will determine the future of consumer acceptance. Wearable electronic health and fitness devices are in strong demand with 26 percent of U.S. households owning one as of 2018, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). They projected over 12.5 […]
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Understanding the Language of Healthcare Data
Aug 12th, 2022The Healthcare Data Language Crisis Healthcare organizations have been capturing, collecting, transforming, accessing, analyzing, securing, and storing large amounts of data for many years, and yet there is still doubt in trusting and/or understanding their data and how to utilize it. For many healthcare organizations, data is still a vast, field of information and definitions, […]
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Why Legacy System Integration is Necessary for Health Apps
Aug 12th, 2022Digital Health Funding is Driving Transformation If you look around, almost all industries have significantly digitized their customer touch points, but healthcare has been slow in catching up. Until the pandemic that is. The pandemic opened the eyes of many large health systems, health plans and even the investor community to recognize the need to […]
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Top 3 Healthcare Data Challenges from Industry Leaders
Jul 14th, 2022Thanks to the digital economy, data is now the new gold. In the healthcare and life sciences industries, data is improving the lives of patients and making it efficient for providers to deliver care in novel ways. A deluge of data, however, comes with its own set of challenges. To get a better understanding of […]
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Harnessing the Power of Big Data in Healthcare: A Five-Pillar Approach
Oct 25th, 2019In the past two decades, the healthcare industry has witnessed an unprecedented data explosion. The advent of big data has opened up a world of possibilities, offering a treasure trove of insights that can revolutionize patient care. However, the sheer volume of healthcare data can be overwhelming, and without the right strategies, this wealth of […]
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Understanding the Challenges of Data Migration
May 21st, 2019emids delivered a GUI-based ETL middleware tool which leveraged Microsoft SQLServer, Snaplogic and a .Net interface. Overview One of the main reasons many organizations, especially at the enterprise level, continue to use older or legacy systems is the challenge of updating all of the “jobs” or interfaces which move data into and out of those […]
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Data Governance, Data Liquidity and the Data Chain of Trust
May 2nd, 2018How the right data governance model can help healthcare organizations meet the demands of digital transformation By Randy Thomas, FHIMSS Senior Director, Value-based Consulting Value-based care. Population health management. Digital health. Healthcare consumerism. Promoting interoperability. All these evolving healthcare opportunities require consistent, accurate, reliable data. While the quantity of data created in healthcare continues to […]
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Using Data to Transform the Consumer Experience
Mar 1st, 2018As patient data becomes more diverse and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning make analytics more intuitive, opportunities are growing for connecting disparate data throughout the healthcare industry and using it to make decisions, predict needs, identify risks, and strengthen trust and relationships with consumers. In healthcare organizations, CIOs are leading these […]