Digital Safety Radar

<!--break--> Dave Handelsman had a really great article on Applied Clinical Trials this month related to improving safety and longer-term healthcare through the application of advanced analytics to social media. When many people think of using analytics on social media to improve healthcare, they are usually thinking of the... [read more]

IBM: Numerati paradise

<!--break--> It's been about three weeks that I've been "covering" IBM for BusinessWeek. I haven't done any articles yet, but I get a stream of news items that have to be mouthwatering for the Numerati. The fact is, IBM has been pouring loads of research and investment into data analysis. It's key to the company's strategy. As I... [read more]

Using decision management for meaningful EMR

<!--break--> Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Using decision management for meaningful EMR.I saw this comment last week in The US stimulus program Taking medical records online – McKinsey Quarterly – Health Care – Strategy & Analysis and it struck a chord with me: health care providers to upgrade... [read more]

BI in Health Care—and Everywhere Else

<!--break--> In which Jill observes that the maxim, “Physician, heal thyself” can have several meanings. Several years ago, Baseline Consulting received a blind Request for Proposal from an HMO. The RFP was for help building a BI strategy. Right up our alley. Trouble was we didn’t have many references in the healthcare sector. At that... [read more]

PAW: High-Performance Scoring of Healthcare Data

<!--break--> Live from Predictive Analytics WorldNatasha Balac from UC San Diego and Michael Zeller from Zementis (their product was blogged here and their support for the amazon.com compute cloud was discussed here) presented on the use of Medicare and Medicaid data to detect and prevent fraud. The high computing center at UC San... [read more]

Analytics In A Global Recession: Fixed Price Operational Dashboard

<!--break--> As the world economy moves towards a potential global recession companies are asking about how could they could optimized their investments in business intelligence, BPM, data mining, and analytics. The answer is simple: go to a fixed price operational dashboard model that requires vendors and service providers to:1.... [read more]

The Commoditization of Analytics

<!--break-->   The Commoditization of Analytics[1]   The delivery of profit-boosting initiatives in a downturn economy has never been greater for Finance and Information Technology executives.  The pressure on CFO and CIO to deliver cost-efficient and profit enhancing technologies is increasing daily.  Executives... [read more]