Category Archive: Healthcare analytics

Application of advanced analytical modelling in healthcare

Data and Analytics in Healthcare – conference review

I recently had the privilege to attend the Data and Analytics in Healthcare conference hosted by Corinium Intelligence in Australia. Following this, I wanted to use my blog piece this month to discuss some of the key lessons and insights shared during the event. I’ll jump straight in. Data governance and ethics Of course, it …

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Conference report back: The practical ways data is transforming healthcare

I was fortunate to have been invited to attend the recent ‘Data & Analytics in Healthcare’ conference in Australia which took place at the end of March. The event was positioned as a ‘deep-dive into the data transformation taking place in healthcare across Australia – and aimed to explore efforts to transform the use of …

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Health Data Analytics 2016

I had the privilege and pleasure to attend HISA’s Health Data Analytics conference in Brisbane on 11 and 12 October 2016. What follows is this particular BI and Analytics consultant’s impressions and insights from the conference in terms of the main themes covered and the messages and impressions I take away, again from my particular …

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IoT and Analytics

It is widely accepted that the Internet of Things (IoT) relates to the concept of ‘widely connected hardware’. Its impact is vast, because any physical object, which has a sensor attached to it, can be turned into a digital data generating machine – rapidly producing more data than most organisations have the capability to report …

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Evolving into a Data-Centric Healthcare Organisation

In a previous post I reasoned why healthcare organisations should become more data centric. In this post I suggest a fluid and adaptable approach to mature the organisation with respect to data-centricity, in the process motivating why I would not utilise an approach recently suggested by IBM. In this post I focus my attention on …

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Hospitals should be more Data-Centric

As we know, a huge amount of data is generated across most industries and data has become a very useful resource in most organisations. In fact, access to high quality data and insight has become fundamental to achieving many of the strategic goals of any business. So, following on from my past series on data-centricity, …

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Hospital Analytics – are we getting there?

In the research literature we find thousands of papers documenting academic projects documenting analytical models for the hospital environment. But the big question we need to investigate is – how much of it is actually used operationally to make a real change to treatments and patient outcomes?

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Using an Analytics Platform for Hospital Research

Applying complex analytics on a very wide and rich dataset data is fundamental to deriving insights when researching new approaches to specialised care, optimising the effectiveness of clinical trials, reducing the lead time from research to clinical practice – all with the objective of improving quality and longevity of life. However, identifying, accessing, managing and …

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EMRs and Healthcare Analytics

Technology has made an impact on all spheres of society and business, including the healthcare sector. Today, most healthcare organisations are starting to see the benefits of data management and analytics. In fact, according to research, the majority of healthcare organisations are considering the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), not only to improve operational …

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Health Services Analytics – Case Studies

In a previous blog I discussed the use of advanced analytical modelling to improve business processes and non-clinical patient outcomes in hospitals. In this post I shift the attention to case studies of advanced analytical modelling applied to the work done in Radiology and Pathology.

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