Healthcare is undergoing an unprecedented transformation with CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and commercial payers increasingly tying reimbursement to performance on quality measures. Accountable Care Organizations, Bundled Payments, Value-Based Purchasing, and the Patient-Centered Medical Home are among the programs that heavily depend on the reporting of quality data sets by hospitals, physicians, and [...]
Tag Archives: Big Data
The Cure for Healthcare’s Big Data Headache?
Nothing better exemplifies the transforming world of healthcare than the emergence of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). To be effective, an ACO must create an efficient delivery model that constantly improves upon the quality of care while reducing the total cost of care for an assigned population of patients. To make matters more challenging, this needs to be done [...]
Little Myths and Big Myths
There are Little Myths and Big Myths. Little Myths are untrue, but they only keep us from doing something that might otherwise be valuable. For example, until the 19th Century people thought tomatoes were poisonous because they are related to deadly nightshade. But the only bad thing this little myth caused was less-delicious salads and [...]
What’s in a Name?
I am sometimes asked about the origin of the name of our company – Chiliad. My frequent (tongue-in-cheek) answer is that Chiliad is a Greek word meaning “iterative discovery in Big Data!” Some people pronounce it like “kill-ee-ad”, while others say “chill-ee-ad” (inside the company, we use the first pronunciation). Actually, Chiliad truly is a [...]
Big Data and Data Scientists
It is difficult to read many articles on Big Data without running into the need for data scientists. Data Scientist is the relatively new term for people who can work between end users and data to make sense of it. The breadth of articles describing the characteristics of data scientists is quite mind-boggling. They have some or [...]
Culture
Culture is that intangible which defines a company, distinguishes it, and makes it what it is. The best description of the importance of culture I have ever is Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch by Fast Company Expert Blogger Shawn Parr (January 24, 2012). I really wish I had written this blog because it gets the essence so [...]
A Brilliant Form of Gorgeous
As recently as last month, our user interface—the graphical look our users see every day—was OK. But not better than that. And truth to tell (after all, Intellectual Integrity is a company value), occasionally worse. Yet that “OK” user interface sits on top of the greatest Big Data engine the world has ever known. It [...]
Tic-Tac-Toe: A Sales Strategy Perspective
From an early age, I learned that success requires strategy—some plan or method to achieve a desired outcome. Playing tic-tac-toe as a kid, I placed an “X,” my opponent placed an “O,” and so forth until a winner emerged. I liked to win, so I honed my strategy until I was the one who most [...]
Chiliad and Privacy
At Chiliad, we are obssessed about information privacy – it is a consideration in everything we do, and it is built into the architecture of our software. Because it is not bolted on, everything our software does enforces privacy policies. We are a data analysis company, not a data collection company. Here are some of [...]
The Reality of Data Center Consolidation
At Chiliad, we believe improving productivity and helping reduce costs is vitally important. We hope our solutions make a significant contribution to both of those imperatives. This leads me to the topic of data and data center consolidation—one of the major drivers behind these cost and productivity initiatives. We think priorities about data and potential data center [...]
