A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare: What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports (FT Press Analytics)
“Dwight McNeill draws an elegant map to strengthen healthcare composed of insights drawn with wit and imagination from four different sectors.”--Jessie Gruman, President and Founder, Center for Advancing Health“Harnessing the power of health information technology can help transform our healthcare system into the high-quality, patient-centered, and efficient system we need. Dwight shows how healthcare decision makers can learn from the best practices of other industries and use the power of electronic health records and data analytics to improve care and quality.”--U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, State of Rhode Island“If you’re in healthcare, you’ll find that seemingly intractable challenges have already been solved elsewhere. This book will open your eyes to a new set of possibilities.”--Thomas H. Davenport, Visiting Professor, Harvard Business School“A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcareis skillfully researched and makes recommendations that are both innovative and logical.”--Mark Marino, Executive Director, Health Leads BostonBlueprints and Lessons for Using Analytics to Drive Better Clinical and Business Outcomes in Any Healthcare OrganizationHealthcare has remained far behind the curve in leveraging opportunities to use information to improve clinical and business outcomes. Now, Dwight McNeill shows healthcare analysts and decision-makers exactly how to adapt and apply the best analytics techniques from retail, finance, politics, and sports. McNeill describes each method in depth, presenting numerous case studies that show how these approaches have been deployed and the results that have been achieved. Most important, he explains how these methods can be successfully adapted to the most critical challenges you now face in your healthcare organization. From predictive modeling to social media, this book focuses on innovative techniques with demonstrated effectiveness and direct relevance to healthcare. You’ll discover powerful new ways to manage population health; improve patient activation, support, and experience of care; focus on health outcomes; measure what matters for team performance; make information more actionable; and build more customer-centric organizations.DiscoverLearn how four key industries have harvested their analytics “sweet spots”: breakthrough opportunities to drive value from knowledgeDistillAdapt analytics techniques and technologies into compelling applications for solving previously intractable healthcare challengesExecuteMaster a complete roadmap for successfully implementing your most valuable healthcare analytics applications