Years into healthcare's digital transformation, Big Data & Analytics are emerging as a strategy to help solve the industry's toughest challenges. The tools that providers need to improve both clinical and financial outcomes, and meet the goals of health reform head on, are finally coming to fruition. But without proper alignment between technology, workflows and organizational structure, investments in data and analytics will be worthless indeed.
In the fall of 2014, with sponsorship from GE Healthcare, Modern Healthcare Custom Media took an in-depth look at how providers are approaching Big Data & Analytics. First, we surveyed provider executives in the Modern Healthcare audience about their journey in this field. How are they gathering data, what data are they gathering, and how are they analyzing it? And more importantly, what are they trying to accomplish?