Healthcare Analytics - Getting Value from Decision Support Tools

Description:
Health IT integration on its own holds no value unless this adoption can be tied to patient quality and safety. Business intelligence and decision support are keys to success.

Speaker Information:
Gregg Veltri, FHIMSS, CIO, Denver Health

Objectives:
  • Demonstrate best practices for such processes as relaying methodology, metrics and analysis, and knowledge transfer to appropriate clinical and end-users;
  • Identify the impact of clinical informatics, business intelligence and research on clinical, operational and financial environments of healthcare systems; and
  • Develop similar analytics models and designs in their individual healthcare environments to aid in quality and safety improvements.

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