Healthcare

Live Event: International Institute for Analytics Executive Symposium

May 24, 2012

[ June 27, 2012; ] I will be participating in the Analytics Executive Symposium being run on June 26th in Chicago by the International Institute for Analytics of which I am a faculty member.
The Analytics Executive Symposium is a unique and professional gathering of analytics champions who come together to hear and discuss the latest findings and research in analytics. The Symposium [...]

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We need medical decision management not just electronic medical records

March 21, 2012

An article on electronic medical records in the New York Times caught my eye recently. In this article was the comment:
Computerized patient records are unlikely to cut health care costs and may actually encourage doctors to order expensive tests more often, a study published on Monday concludes.
Now I don’t know specifically what about the specific [...]

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First Look – Predixion Insight 2.0

March 1, 2012

I got an update from Predixion Software recently. Predixion, as I have blogged before, was founded in 2009 and is focused on disrupting the predictive analytics market by making it easier to build and deploy predictive analytics. Their core belief is that success with predictive analytics is going to require the broadening of the range [...]

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Market Development at SAS

February 27, 2012

SAS has spent the last four years moving its partnering strategy forward – making partnering a core part of how they do business, partnering with Teradata and Accenture, and most recently a push towards 30%/$200M of first year revenue impacted by partners. Russ Cobb reported out how this has been going in terms of partners:

From [...]

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Business Analytics in Action at SAS

February 27, 2012

This session is focusing on three specific functional areas – customer intelligence, financial crimes/fraud and risk management.

Customer Intelligence
The landscape of Customer Intelligence involves the growth of empowered consumers thanks to the proliferation of channels, the explosion of data and the evolving CMO role as they have to balance analytical and creative. SAS’s vision is to [...]

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Rules Developer/Junior Developer position in Louisville, KY

February 7, 2012

Brooksource in Louisville, KY is searching for a Rules Management Developer for a Fortune 100 client in the healthcare industry. This position is within the Clinical Guidance group and they are seeking someone that has a development background and has experience working with the business side of the house.  This is a unique position that has [...]

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Transformation in the era of big data and analytics #iod11

October 25, 2011

Steve Mills opened up the discussion talking about Big Data, making the point that the art of the possible when it comes to data has been growing steadily for many years – though the current explosion in data is pretty impressive. For instance 1.3B RFID tags in 2005 and 30B in 2010, 4.6B mobile phones [...]

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Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

September 19, 2011

I am attending the Computerworld Business Intelligence and Analytics Perspective conference and just gave the opening keynote “From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics.” Following me is the team from Blue Health Intelligence about their innovative use of predictive analytics.
The US healthcare system that is more expensive, less effective and less safe than many other countries’ [...]

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Transforming your business with analytics – a series

May 23, 2011

I want to share with you the collective wisdom of over 50 companies that have transformed their business using analytics. These companies tackled core business issues like customer retention, marketing, patient care, student achievement, and customer centricity in industries as varied as Retail, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Education, Government, Insurance and Banking.
Tomorrow I will kick off a [...]

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Separation of concerns and the Service-Oriented Business Process

April 11, 2011

Nicklas Holmberg from the Lund School of Economics and Management in Sweden presented on the importance of separation of concerns in business process design. His work has been in healthcare, particularly around a system for vaccination management, and is focused on business rules and a business rules-centric approach to designing services and processes.
Nicklas began by [...]

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Opening keynotes at IBM IMPACT 2011

April 11, 2011

Nancy Pearson and David Farrell kicked off the main event. 8,000 people at IBM IMPACT apparently and Nancy introduced the key themes – helping companies optimize for growth and focus on delivering results. The topics are based on a continued focus on getting business and IT to work together (a key theme of Decision Management [...]

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RuleGuide for managing decisions and rules

March 23, 2011

Lee Lambert of New Wisdom Software presented on his RuleGuide product (see my first look on RuleGuide) to the group considering a Decision Modeling Notation for the Object Management Group. Lee initially focused on the typical complexity that comes when working with Business Process Management and Business Rules Management. Most projects started with a large [...]

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5 ways predictive analytics cuts enterprise risk

March 14, 2011

Eric Siegel opened Predictive Analytics World with a view of using predictive analytics in enterprise risk management. Eric began by giving some examples of “macro” risk – single, catastrophic risk events. But his focus, and the focus of predictive analytics, is on “micro” risk – risk-based micro decisions in my terminology. These are risk decisions [...]

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SAS product portfolio and roadmaps

March 7, 2011

Warning, long post follows – SAS has a lot of products and even this summary was a lot. A big session on the product portfolio – 2010 and 2011 highlights in some specific focus areas. New releases in 2010 included:

Customer Link Analytics – released in Q1 this product focused on using links between customers to [...]

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SAS Vertical Strategy

March 7, 2011

Focus of the presentation from Russ Cobb was Banking, Insurance, Retail and Government.
Banking first. Lots of releases this year primarily around Enterprise Risk Management, Governance Risk Compliance, Customer intelligence, fraud and financial crime solutions. Key customer issues for SAS in banking:

Customer Growth
How do you identify, grow and manage your most profitable customers. Big focus for [...]

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SAS Sales and Marketing Overview

March 7, 2011

Carl Farrell came up to talk about sales enablement and execution. 2010 was an interesting year in the Americas as the recovery was very inconsistent between countries in the Americas and across verticals. Strong growth in First Year Fees – 21% in US, 15% in Canada and 56% nearly in Latin America (with the Southern [...]

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Humana needs a Blaze Advisor Technology Manager

January 4, 2011

Humana is looking for a Technology Manager to manage the Clinical Business Rules Team in Louisville, KY. They are looking for “a self-starter and a proven leader” who would “enjoy using your technical knowledge to help empower your team to identify and resolve organizational issues”. Role has 12-25 direct reports and reports to a [...]

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Unum – Managing business rules #bbc2010

October 19, 2010

Subtitled “from 0 to 1400″, this case study discussed how Unum (an insurance company) introduced business rules. Back in 2009 their rules were scattered, siloed, hidden in requirements documents and in different formats (from code to if/then statements to long verbose notes). And even though they tried to focus on rules, [...]

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Five Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk #pawcon

October 19, 2010

Eric Siegel opened Predictive Analytics World with a keynote on Five Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk. Predictive analytics is a hot topic these days, with demand in terms of jobs for instance doubling since the beginning of 2009. Yet the audience was really clear that most executives do not get the true power of [...]

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Decision Management and reforming hospitals

August 17, 2010

The McKinsey Quarterly had a nice piece on Reforming hospitals with IT investment that contained a great paragraph:
Combined with clinical-decision-support (CDS) tools that give physicians best-practice guidelines for medical procedures and with stricter coding classifications, electronic health records not only broaden access to medical information but also serve as a forcing agent [...]

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