Mission critical emergency departments (EDs) are the most valuable revenue generating asset for hospitals. While visits decreased during the pandemic, hospitals are starting to report a return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. In December of 2022, more than 80% of hospital beds were in use nationwide, jumping 8 percentage points in two weeks. However, capacity varies…

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The traditional model of treating single diseases no longer works. Data collected from 2016 to 2019 indicated that 32.9% of US adults had multiple chronic conditions—and that attempting to address these issues individually and separately is ineffective and costly. This fact is particularly poignant for Medicaid populations, who are significantly more likely to suffer from…

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At our annual Impact Summit, I had the privilege to talk about augmented analytics and address questions from healthcare executives—many from payer organizations. Here are a few answers to some of the most common questions I’m asked. (You can also catch my session on-demand.) 1.    What is augmented analytics? Augmented analytics is the use of enabling…

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Dr. Lyle Berkowitz

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes After an excellent keynote session led by Dr. Lyle Berkowitz at our 2022 Impact Summit (read the full talk summary here!), healthcare expert and MedeAnalytics executive Andy Dé sat down with Dr. Berkowitz for a follow-up Q&A about technological innovations in healthcare. Read through their fascinating discussion below! Dé: How…

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The missing piece to your Population Health strategy:

The healthcare industry is swimming in data; sometimes organizations can even feel like they are drowning in available information. To stay afloat, health plans need systems and strategies for unifying disparate sources, sifting through the sea of data, and extracting meaningful, actionable insights. When done well, robust analytics have enormous power to impact population health…

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Dr. Lyle Berkowitz

The 2022 Impact Summit (IS22) was outstanding for a plethora of reasons—and Dr. Lyle Berkowitz is foremost among them. For this year’s keynote, Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACHP, FHIMSS, a biomedical engineer turned primary care physician, healthcare innovator, futurist and digital health expert, shared how to execute on the powerful potential of data analytics and AI to advance the ‘renaissance in healthcare’ that is happening as we…

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David Schweppe, Chief Analytics Officer at MedeAnalytics (right), being interviewed by John Lynn, Founder and Chief Editor at Healthcare IT Today. The idea of whole-person care as critical to health equity initiatives was a significant theme at AHIP this year. During the conference, Healthcare IT Today met up with David Schweppe, Chief Analytics Officer at…

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It has been widely reported that telehealth utilization increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, MedeAnalytics health plan customers saw up to a five-fold increase in telehealth utilization from the first quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2020 for the employer groups they served. The increased reliance on telehealth during the pandemic…

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