Covid Epi Weekly: Harrowing Holidays

It’s hard to imagine a worse confluence. Cases are surging in much of the US. People are tired of the limitations the virus is imposing. Economic harm is real, painful, and persistent. And White House communications have continued to mislead, divide, and deny. Bottom line (almost) up front: there IS one thing that can stop …

The Future of Healthcare is Here: CMS Launches Largest-Ever Multi-Payer Initiative

The US government did something monumental today. As an extension to the Affordable Care Act, they have put into place a new initiative that enables our doctors and health care teams to have the freedom to administer care in a way they think will deliver the best outcomes to you and me! You ask why …

The “Five Big Shifts”​ Coming Next to Clinical Trials

Many today are discussing how clinical trials will look differently after the pandemic. Innovative approaches that had been developed in recent years but were stalled in “experimentation” have been rapidly adopted over 2020 as pandemic counter-measures, and many organizations are now making commitments to embed these approaches into their clinical trial pipelines going forward. These …

RESOLVING THE EHR TECHNOLOGY BLAME GAME

The value-based care initiative ushered a fundamental push for healthcare providers to satisfy requirements for meaningful use incentives and HIT vendors’ to offer software focused on the interoperability of health information. At that point in time, pitfalls around the actual usability of EHRs were tolerated. Still, years later, a fragmented EHR and HIT system has …

The Rise of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Industry: How It Saves Lives.

We had a virtual meet with Mr. Srinath Vallakirthy to understand how analytics is changing the game for patients.  Thanks to healthcare organizations’ innovative approaches. Can you walk us how data science/AI is revolutionizing in the healthcare Industry?  From improved diagnosis to timely detection of diseases, artificial intelligence has been making positive contributions towards the …

Navigating The Outcome Economy For Pharma

In 2015, the World Economic Forum published a report based on a year-long research project that examined the historical impact of the digital revolution that had already disrupted industries such as media and retail, and how disruption would continue and extend to other industries as data and AI-driven technologies become ubiquitous. The report discussed the …

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: The Life-Saving Technology That Will Transform Healthcare using actionable insights

Artificial Intelligence is called the new nervous system of the healthcare domain. Application of Artificial Intelligence in Health information comprises of training databases for health data, medical data exchange clinical decision support system, creation, and use of knowledge. Medical data and healthcare statistics have now evolved as a separate domain called Health Informatics. Technology aids …

Do you really need a CTMS system?

In the not too distant past, if you were running clinical trials, we would never have expected this question to be posed: “do we really need a Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS)?” You needed to have a system that would capture and report out information related to the operational progress of your trials, without question. But, …

Can Clinical Registries Close Healthcare Analytics Gaps?

Improvement in our health system is sorely needed and analytics may be one of our biggest opportunities to shape the future. Other industries have leveraged sophisticated data tools and techniques to not only improve but completely disrupt standards and best practices.   Modernizing clinical registries may be the most likely place to start as this long …