Health IT Analytics September 11, 2017
Jennifer Bresnick

Is $10 billion all it will take to address the fundamental big data analytics, payment reform, and productivity shortcomings of the healthcare industry?

“Give me a lever long enough and a firm place to stand, and I shall move the world,” declared Archimedes in defense of the notion that with the right tools in place, the targeted application of a little force could shift a mass that seems far beyond its ability to impact.

The healthcare industry is no stranger to weighty problems, including skyrocketing costs, slumping provider productivity, and the near-universal lack of big data liquidity – and it has certainly tried to implement its fair share of forceful solutions.

Top-down regulatory solutions backed by financial penalties, such as...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), Analytics, Big Data, CMS, Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Investments, MACRA, Physician, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Value Based
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