Data Quality
One Health Plan’s Practical Example with Provider Directories
In a recent blog, we looked at provider directories, regulations around them, and fines levied against health plans for inaccurate directories. Now, we’ll look at how one organization improved the…
Ending Data Co-Dependency [or, How to Love your Data Again]
Preface Data is critical to everyday processes in healthcare. Data helps tackle operational issues, offers insight into performance, improve quality, safety and standardizes process, and allows us to better understand…
The Struggle for Accuracy in Provider Directories
The issue Provider directories are often fraught with errors and inaccuracies, which can lead to hefty CMS fines and sanctions against health plans. As many health plans know from personal…
Legacy Software Support May End, But an Archive is Forever
Here’s a question for you: With SQL Server 2008 ending support in July 2019 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support coming to an end in January 2020, do you have…
Is Your Population Health IT Platform Optimized?
If you are a Population Health Operations Vice President, Director or Manager, and you’ve had your current population health solution for five years or more does the following ring true…
MDM Implementations: Steps for Success
What is the most important aspect to address for any successful MDM implementation? For those of us who work closely within client MDM environments, we’d probably all agree that it’s the pre-work that healthcare teams…
Membership Management: Unlocking the Value of Automation
Membership data poses a significant challenge to operational excellence for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Because membership data is the foundation of contract management, many of the challenges focus on…
Top 5 Data Challenges for Life Sciences R&D Organizations
As anyone in Life Sciences already knows, every second of every day in R&D we are surrounded by data. We have pre-clinical data, clinical data, submission data, FDA correspondence, and…