My name is Mark Pasquale, and I’m a vice president with Healthlink Advisors. As far as my background, I have had the privilege of serving as a chief information officer for two different health systems. I’ve been in information technology my entire career. At Healthlink Advisors, I’m responsible for working with our teams to support thought leadership and the overall quality of product deliverables.īurbine: Thank you, Anthony. I’m the director of analytics and I’ve got a background in engineering and am Hadoop certified. I’m always happy to be talking about analytics so I appreciate having this conversation. Regarding Healthlink Advisors, we are an independent advisory firm and we focus on serving the CIO and other operational leaders in healthcare organizations. Guerra: So today we’re going to talk about some of the trends in the marketplace that you’ve identified from the requests customers are making of your firm. These requests are specifically around Epic customers and their work on population health and risk management analytics. So my first question is what are the business needs underlying these technology-oriented requests?īurbine: As health systems are continuing to expand their population health programs, they have this need to integrate patient-reported data, public data like social determinants, device streams and more with their existing EHR data, but as I rattle through different data types, I have to note that they are very different in nature, and so the ability to collect those and use them in a combined fashion is challenging for a lot of health organizations. Something we hear a lot about are the business stakeholders who, when trying to describe their organization’s analytics, claim it’s missing information or data, and so they end up spending a lot of time trying to extract the information that they’re after and combine it for their own use on their desktops. A great example we hear all the time is, ‘We would love the ability to combine our cost data with our clinical information so we can have some interesting analytics around things like joint replacement.’ So any adjustments as needed around things like that.Īnother example is the growth that health systems are going through around their at-risk contracts.Īnd when individuals are doing that, it’s extremely time consuming, not to mention risky. #Caboodle epic how to#They want to continue to expand but, in order to do that, health systems need visibility into how to determine and negotiate acceptable levels of financial risk.
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