Top 10 Blog Posts of 2020

by | Dec 22, 2020 | General BI

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Another year has gone by, and it was definitely not an ordinary one. It’s safe to say that 2020 will be a year that everyone will remember. From an almost year-long global pandemic, to protests calling for racial justice, to economic recession, to a presidential election, and now a newly developed vaccination, 2020 is one for the history books. However, we still worked hard to provide readers with informative blogs and articles that they could rely on. Here are the Top 10 blog posts of this year for you to dig into again and share:

1. Data Analytics and the Fight Against COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, extreme stress on the information technology capabilities of health systems became a concern for hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide. This blog post explores how strong data analytics can be used to combat the pandemic and how data can prevent future health crises.

2. Social Determinants of Health, COVID-19, and Racism in Healthcare: Smarter Healthcare Podcast Episode 8 Takeaways

Racism has been a major societal issue since the beginning of time, and today it’s speaking just as loud as it was decades ago. But now with COVID-19 in the mix of current social justice movements, it’s important to talk about how the two intertwine. This blog post discusses the relevance between racism and the healthcare system and features main takeaways from episode 8 of the Smarter Healthcare podcast with Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health.

3. COVID-19 Analytics Toolkit Available for Healthcare Providers

Dimensional Insight is proud to announce that we are now offering a COVID-19 analytics toolkit in order to help healthcare providers gain insight into their operations and capacity. This blog post explores what’s included in the toolkit and how it can serve as an important resource for hospitals and healthcare organizations.

4. The Growth of Telehealth and How Analytics Can Support It

The use of telehealth has grown rapidly over the last several years, and even more so amid the pandemic. In this blog post, we take a look at the growth of telehealth and how analytics can help the technology itself as well as healthcare providers, including how to overcome the hurdles that need to be overcome when deploying telehealth.

5. Using Data More Effectively to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Healthcare organizations looking to cut costs and improve patient care are increasingly exploring how the conditions in which people live and work contribute to long-term outcomes. This blog post explores the ways in which healthcare providers can collect and leverage social determinants data more effectively to produce positive outcomes for their patients.

6. 5 Data Analytics Trends for 2020

Data analytics is no longer a trend – it is a necessity for organizations to stay relevant in their fields. In this blog post, we take a look at five different analytics trends of 2020 and how businesses can harness the power of data analytics.

7. How Businesses Can Manage Their Supply Chains During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the best of times, a disruption to the supply chain can cost an organization valuable time and money. In the current climate, the repercussions are not only clear to the organization, but also to people who may have never heard of the term “supply chain” before. With the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies took steps after previous supply chain disruptions to prepare themselves for a situation like this. This blog post takes a look at both sides and how everyone can prepare themselves for the next major disruption.

8. Customer Spotlight: FREJA Transport and Logistics

FREJA is a privately-owned transportation company specializing in road transport, but offering sea and air freight as well. Their story might sound familiar to any number of organizations in any number of industries: for a long time, the company had a business intelligence solution in place, but wasn’t using it to its full potential. See how FREJA is using its analytics and the power of Measure Factory in this blog post.

9. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Affecting Children’s Hospital Operations

We’ve all heard that COVID-19 generally does not affect children as much as it affects adults, which means children’s hospitals aren’t as affected by the pandemic as acute care hospitals are, right? Wrong. In this blog post, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting children’s hospital operations and how healthcare analytics can help out.

10. Using Artificial Intelligence to Help with Mental Health

The world is facing a mental health epidemic. Did you know that one in five adults suffers from some form of mental illness in the United States, yet more than 50% of these illnesses are left untreated? However, one optimistic element to this crisis is the existence of new technology that we did not have even a decade or two ago – one of which is Artificial Intelligence. In this blog post, we take a look at how artificial intelligence is being used to help with mental health.

Happy New Year!

Although 2020 was not the year that any of us were expecting or hoping for, the year is coming to a close and we hope that 2021 will be brighter and more promising as we continue to provide you with useful and informative content. Thank you to all of our readers who support us by reading, commenting, and sharing our blog articles. Happy New Year from our team at Dimensional Insight!

Lindsey Berke

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