Anyone who has filled out a pre-visit patient questionnaire has experienced some of the data extracted from social determinants of health (SDOHs)....
Data is at the Heart of Population Health
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Building a Greener Healthcare System with Data Analytics
The healthcare sector faces an age-old paradox: it’s significantly impacted by the climate crisis and simultaneously contributes to it. Extreme...
Data’s Crucial Role in Combatting the “Tripledemic”
While some may believe that COVID-19 is a thing of the past, the numbers paint a starkly different picture. In the wake of relaxed COVID-19...
Using Data to Stay Compliant with Joint Commission Standards
Hospitals are well aware of The Joint Commission's role in regulating safety and operational standards within the healthcare industry. Healthcare...
4 Key Strategies to Maximize Value-Based Care with Data and Analytics
In recent years, healthcare has seen a shift to a value-based care model, as an increasing number of hospitals are focused on incentivizing...
Harnessing Big Data for Suicide Prevention
Recent CDC data indicates that suicide was the twelfth leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 46,000 people in...
How Data Can Measure the Impact of Hospital-at-Home Programs
This isn’t your grandparents’ house call. The black medical bag of old has been replaced by modern technology….and lots of data. “Hospital-at-home”...
What Data Can Tell Us About Mental Health
Mental illnesses affect more than 52 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to the National Institute of...
Using Analytics to Get a Pulse on the Health of Your Emergency Department
When everything is running as intended, a hospital is like a well-oiled machine. Each department plays a role in keeping the hospital working. But...
How Analytics Can Help Combat the Opioid Epidemic
The statistics are alarming. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, the number of drug overdose deaths involving...
The Importance of Data Integration Is Front-Page News
For healthcare organizations looking to make a digital transition, often the hardest part is getting the buy-in of hospital leadership....
How States Are Trying to Better Understand the Nuances of Pandemic Data
Despite the best efforts of various agencies and government officials, accurately plotting data from emerging COVID-19 infections remains a much...
What the Data Shows about Omicron
It’s been two years since the onset of COVID-19, and the virus is more prevalent than ever before. The recent outbreak of the Omicron variant has...
New Survey: Only 1 in 5 Healthcare Orgs. Use Analytics for Population Health
Today, HIMSS Analytics and Dimensional Insight released some surprising new survey results about the state of clinical analytics at healthcare...
Customer Spotlight: Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System
Over the five years I’ve worked at Dimensional Insight, I’ve met several of our customers either in person at one of our user events or over the...