Vizient is the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serving more than 65% of the nation’s acute-care hospitals. The company provides analytics-enabled solutions to improve care quality, as well as spend management. To ensure efficient control of how data is managed and accessed, while also complying with legal, industry, and...
Life sciences organizations have traditionally been early adopters of data science and analytics practices, which have revolutionized how they conduct research, develop life-saving therapies, deliver personalized medicine, and optimize their operations. Central to these advances is the ability to share data among healthcare providers, researchers, regulators, and more. Data sharing fosters...
Genomic data holds significant promise in advancing personalized medicine, streamlining disease treatments, and improving health outcomes. By leveraging individual genetic profiles and biomarkers, genomic data allows researchers to improve treatment accuracy and efficacy. But this promise carries significant privacy risks. The volume and high dimensionality of genetic data introduces a...
Health data is one of the most valuable assets organizations in the healthcare and life sciences industry can possess. It’s also one of the most vulnerable. Over the years, legal steps have been taken to protect healthcare data security and patient privacy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), passed by...
From providing quality patient care and correctly diagnosing medical issues, to developing vaccines and monitoring public health trends, efficient data use in the healthcare and life sciences industry could literally be a matter of life and death. But data use in healthcare and life sciences is highly regulated, and patients are...
The average hospital has seen a 90% turnover of its workforce in the last five years, and 83% of RN staff. Nurses are not just protesting about their inability to deliver great care – they are leaving the healthcare field altogether. And they’re not the only ones. From the doctors to those...