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Business Intelligence in Healthcare: The Drivers

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The cost of a new, effective system of healthcare delivery would be instead of rather than in addition to what the U.S. population is now paying for an inadequate, incomplete system.1

No wonder enterprising individuals and forward-thinking start-ups are looking into new ways to administer healthcare to an increasingly disaffected public. Politician promises (or threats, depending on your viewpoint) of national healthcare reform have hospital administrators apprehensive. A group of heavy-hitter companies including Wal-Mart and Intel have put their muscle behind a collaborative effort called the Dossia Network, which would offer employers an integrated platform of electronic medical records, enabling them to manage health insurance for their employees while giving employees more control over their personal medical information.

Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) are independent data exchanges that consolidate the often far-flung clinical data from across hospitals, ambulatory clinics, labs, and pharmacies – usually in a common geographic area. They offer electronic records to their member organizations with the aim of improving on-demand information access and thus the continuity of care across provider, prescriber, and payer organizations. RHIOs also allow doctors to exchange information with other doctors or care providers via both “push” or “pull” modes of data sharing.

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