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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Our Move to Healthcare: So Different, So Similar
Following the attacks of September 11, the intelligence community quickly realized it needed a better way to integrate, share and analyze the massive volumes of data it was collecting and tracking to fight terrorism. Chiliad provided a unique capability to support the intelligence analyst community work through massive amounts of data quickly to protect our [...]
Putting the Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine
Just a few days ago, Oracle got quite a bit of attention from it’s report, From Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges, a report on the state of big data in the enterprise. This survey of over 300 C-level executives in North America revealed a general lack of preparedness to leverage the explosion of [...]
