Blog by Kristin Jenkins, President, DFW Hospital Council Foundation It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to an outstanding program – the North Texas Regional Extension Center (NTREC). We are so grateful to Dr. Matt Murray of Cook Children’s Health Care System and Dr. Richard Howe, the executive director of NTREC. Their […]
Posts Tagged ‘physician analytics’
Physician Data Analytics – Five Basic Steps Toward Population Health
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director of NTREC Last month in an article in HealthITAnalytics (07/06/15), I discussed how our organization enables population health with big data analytics. Even though this article is focused on population health across a large metropolitan community, some of the underlying principles also apply to a small physician practice. Five […]
Physician Data Analytics – Value of Claims Data
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director of NTREC Last month I discussed how your electronic health record (EHR) and analytics tools could impact the long-term revenue of your practice and why you should consider getting into data analytics. This month I would like to review how just using claims data can have a positive impact […]
Physician Data Analytics – Population Health in the “Oldest Old”
Last month, I commented on physician analytics related to tracking medications, finding discontinued medications and monitoring of chronic conditions. This month I would like to talk about data analytics related to the “oldest old” – or people over the age of 90. Background and Findings Senior citizens over the age of 90 are called our […]
Data Analytics in Healthcare: Physician Analytics Coming Soon
In my previous blog, I discussed five reasons why you should do physician data analytics including: 1) Improve communication, 2) Lower the overall costs, 3) Improve volume of patients seen, 4) Improve patient satisfaction and 5) Improve quality of patient care. We recently obtained a tool for launching the pilot physician data analytics service. This […]