Healthcare IT News March 10, 2015
Until recently, technology-enabled efforts to improve population health relied heavily on the use of claims data alone. While there is evidence this approach has merit, there is also a new opportunity to take these efforts to the next level. The increased availability of other types of useful data, namely clinical data from electronic medical records and other systems, can help healthcare organizations fine-tune their analytics. As a result, they can better segment populations, improve quality, increase patient engagement to successfully address population health needs.
Claims and clinical data naturally complement one another. Claims data has unmatched value in a complex and quickly evolving healthcare marketplace because it offers a retrospective look at what actually happened. In addition to revealing health...
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