Each week, the #HITsm community does a Twitter chat. This week it was hosted by @ahier and was focused on the topics of analytics. It was good timing considering we’re going to be innundated with healthcare analytics discussions at HIMSS 2014. Here is a look at the questions asked during the chat:
T1: What true models for analytics and data driven healthcare actually exist?
T2: Who’s going to win the analytics market battle: EHR vendors or the analytics specialty vendors?
T3: Should certification for analytics and clinical data warehouses be included in meaningful use?
T4: What are the concerns and benefits around marrying clinical, claims, and consumer retail purchasing data?
You can find the full transcript of the chat here. For those not wanting to read the whole chat, here are some tweets of mine I think you’ll find interesting:
All the analytics models I've seen are about maximizing reimbursement, not care. #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
RT @mloxton: Much of HC analytics is descriptive stats, and needs to get to predictive. What would a change in X do to Y #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
Specialty analytics vendors will win for sure. EHR's will be the "database of healthcare" See: http://t.co/ITVph0JPVL #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
The best healthcare analytics platforms are going to need more data than what's in an EHR. Will EHR vendors be open to that? #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
Underline the "trying" RT @sarahbennight: EHR vendors are too busy trying to stay on top of MU, ICD, etc #hitsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
Some don't want it to move RT @nxtstop1 at some point everyone needs 2 pull in the same direction , o/w this boat will never move #hitsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
@ShimCode If we can't get great results from healthcare analytics with this many people working on it, something's wrong. #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) February 21, 2014
I think this gives you a pretty good view into what I think about healthcare analytics. I’d love to hear yours.