Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer, IBM Watson Health
Using an EHR for Population Health: What’s missing?
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Value-Based Care
Building the right IT infrastructure is often the first step in developing population health management programs. While EHRs can provide a basic foundation, to truly understand the whole patient and the whole population, organizations must supplement their EHRs with the right IT solutions. ...read more
Meaningful Population Health – The Need to Go Beyond EHRs for Success
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Value-Based Care
How can healthcare systems create the interoperability needed to aggregate and analyze data from disparate sources to effectively manage population health? ...read more
The Data Lake Approach to Population Health Management
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Value-Based Care
As healthcare organizations form clinically integrated networks (CINs) to help them facilitate population health management (PHM), many are finding they lack the data infrastructure needed to ensure their eventual success. As these organizations adapt to focus on population health, a data lake infrastructure can be a game-changer. ...read more
Interoperability: What ACOs Need
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Value-Based Care
Despite their investments in health IT, more than two-thirds of ACOs are having a hard time assimilating information from specialty-care settings. Learn what can ACOs and their leaders can do as they work to make interoperability a reality. ...read more
The 5 Vs of Big Data
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Healthcare Data Analytics
Read on to discover how the characteristics of big data are relevant to healthcare organizations in particular. ...read more
What Watson Health’s Latest Acquisition Means for Population Health
Written by Anil Jain | Blog Post, Healthcare Data Analytics
Watson Health was designed to serve as a catalyst to help clinicians improve and save lives of people around the world, and help lower health costs through the power of cognitive insights. Find out what the addition of Truven Health Analytics brings to Watson Health. ...read more