Articles

Data and Social Determinants of Health

By Editorial Team

By Scott Hampel – I think a lot–and I’m not the only one–about how we can improve the ways we pull information from data. Data on its own is inert: just waiting to be understood and then used. And that’s a major challenge for many organizations. Data is often trapped in different applications with no easy or convenient way to extract it.

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Why Social Determinants Need Analytics for Success

By Editorial Team

Many challenges face healthcare’s underserved. There are issues with food, housing, reliable transportation, steady employment and more. Each contributes to and is one element of social determinants of health (SDH). In communities around the world, public and private organizations are taking steps to address SDH-related issues and challenges that negatively impact healthcare.

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Healthcare Organizations Recognize Importance of AI for Reporting

By MedeAnalytics

Healthcare providers continue to recognize the value of using AI in reporting operations throughout the organization. AI has many strengths when applied to the healthcare industry:

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Why It’s Time for Healthcare to Move Toward AI Reporting

By MedeAnalytics

Business intelligence (BI) was a dramatic and significant step forward in healthcare industry reporting and a natural transition to artificial intelligence (AI) enabled real-time insights.

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Why Healthcare Should “Double-Down” on Exploring AI-powered BI for Reporting

By MedeAnalytics

Many areas in healthcare rely not only on the collection of data but, importantly, the ability to decipher and act upon it. In that intersection, reporting was born.

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Why Health Plans and Employers Need Stop Loss Reporting

By MedeAnalytics

Due to rising healthcare costs and the Affordable Care Act removing the ban on capitated benefits coverage, numerous employers with self-insured health plans often purchase stop loss coverage. This coverage is not medical insurance; but rather, it’s a financial and risk management tool that protects the employer from excessive claims.

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Bridge the Payer/Provider Data Gap

By MedeAnalytics

Every patient has a plethora of data associated with their health record, which can include decades of enrollments, claims, accounts and charges. Much of this data is not housed within the same institutional, facility or provider database…

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Digging deeper: Leveraging analytics to boost service line profitability

By MedeAnalytics

Regardless of the size of the hospital or health system, you need to look beyond traditional operational metrics to fully understand your organization’s performance. Insights into revenue, volume, cost, quality and variation across service lines are key to improving both performance and profitability.

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