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Healthcare

Old Way, EDM way returns

May 27, 2008

One of the most fun things we did in the book was write about real success stories. We used an “Old Way” v “EDM Way” model for these. In the past I have written some blog posts using a similar style and today I have a new one.
Old Way
An online pharmacy (that the country trusts, [...]

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Here’s how one company is using EDM to improve healthcare

March 4, 2008

Silverlink is an interesting company whose approach is to apply science to drive healthcare behaviors in a scalable manner. They made some announcements today at the Health 2.0 conference. I recently got a chance to speak with the CEO (Stan Nowak) and his team. Silverlink has 50 healthcare clients representing 150 million lives (including 9 [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Breakthrough in Claims Excellence Management

February 26, 2008

Last session of the day was from Rodolfo Viola of Swiss Medical Argentina on Breakthrough in Claims Excellence Management. Claims is, of course, a prime target for rules-based automation so I was excited to hear how an organization outside of North America/Europe was handling it.
Swiss Medical is a privately owned company founded as a clinic [...]

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Automating detection of insider trading, money laundering and fraud

January 29, 2008

One of the most interesting uses of enterprise decision management or EDM is in automating detection of various kinds of “bad” activity. Whether the concern du jour is insider trading, money laundering or just plain old fraud. There are a number of reasons why EDM is such a powerful approach.

Automation is fundamentally the best approach [...]

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Using decision management to make e-prescribing useful

December 7, 2007

Bill over at the Wireless MD had a couple of interesting posts on e-prescribing today – Senatorial bi-partisan support for e-prescribing and Caveats for e-prescribing. The use of technology to improve healthcare is an endlessly fascinating discussion and the use of information systems to handle prescriptions (e-prescribing) is one of the most debated.
There is growing [...]

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