10THE WORLD OF HEALTH ANALYTICS

JASON BURKE

Contents

Introduction

Analysis Paralysis

Analytical Maturity and Objectives

The Eight Levels of Analytics

Business versus Clinical Analytics

Improving Organizational Performance

Lowering Healthcare Costs

Improving Healthcare Outcomes

Summary

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Evidence-based medicine. Personal electronic health records. Disease management. Personalized medicine. These terms, among many others, reflect a rapidly growing change within the health sciences ecosystem—a transformative shift toward more information-based decision making related to patient care and healthcare cost management. For decades, the efficiencies and improvements attained in other industries through the adoption of information ...

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