What are the hottest trends in healthcare data warehousing and analytics? Read about them from Dale Sanders, one of the industry’s foremost experts. Dale has been one of the most influential leaders in healthcare analytics and data warehousing since his earliest days in the industry and is frequently introduced as the leading authority on healthcare data warehousing and business intelligence in the United States.

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10 Trends in Healthcare Data Warehousing
That Every Health System Needs to Know
By Dale Sanders

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10 Trends in Healthcare Data Warehousing
What are the hottest trends presently being discussed
by your industry peers around the country?

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and
Partnerships:
The reality is settling in – the grand
aspirations of MA&P are now facing
the harsh reality of data integration.
The newco executive team is having
a difficult, if not impossible, time
producing simple GL and other
management reports about the new
organization.
The dreams of measuring clinical
quality and costs across the new
enterprise are now seen as
somewhat unrealistic. It’s back to
basics for analytics.
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Evolving Legacy Platforms
How do we evolve our existing data
warehouse for the future that requires
agile data consumption and
utilization?
Most organizations that are asking
this question are typically using a
very “early binding” data model,
characterized with a centralized,
monolithic data model.
They are struggling to keep pace with
loading new data sources – for
example, coming from their ACO
partners – and meeting new analytics
use cases under Healthcare 2.0.
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EHR vs. Analytics Specialty
Vendors
Will our EHR vendor meet our
analytics needs or do we need
an analytics specialty vendor?
Do we need both?
If so, how do we minimize the
overlap and maximize the
strengths of each?
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Data Governance
How do we get it started and
what is its charter and
purpose?
Who should be on the
committee and what should the
committee be worried about?
If we had a data governance
function and it faded, how do
we get it back on-track?
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Research vs. Operational
Analytics
The data gap in academic
medical centers between
research analytics and
operational analytics has been
a problem for years, but now
it’s less tolerable because of
security risks and inherent
inefficiencies.
How do we close that gap with
a common technology and
governance structure?
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ACO Analytics
Who’s going to “own” the data
warehouse and analytics
function in an ACO (commercial
or federal) and what does that
data warehouse offer for data
content and services?
Where does that data
warehouse physically reside,
who is responsible for its
operation, and how is it
governed?
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Analytics Skills
There is a critical shortage of
analytics skills and a general lack
of data literacy in the existing
workforce – what are we going to
do about that in our organization?
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Cost Accounting Analytics
There is greater attention to
and momentum behind cost
accounting (vs. charges or
reimbursement) analytics.
Expect this trend to continue
for the next several years,
and rightly so. We are way
behind on this topic in our
industry.
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Physician-led ACOs:
There is increasing attention
on, and momentum behind,
analytics investments from
physician-led ACOs.
The tide has turned.
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Small Hospital ACOs
There is increasing attention
on, and momentum behind,
analytics in safety net and
critical access hospitals.
How do small organizations
with limited budgets and
skills pool those resources
for shared analytics?
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More about this topic
4 Bold Predictions for Healthcare Analytics in 2014 and Beyond
Brent Dover, President
Evolving Legacy Platforms: Which Data Warehouse Is Best — Early or Late-Binding?
Mike Doyle, Vice President of Sales
EHR vs. Analytics Specialty Vendors: Which to Choose for Your Data Warehousing
and Analytics Provider?
Dr. David Burton, Former CEO and Executive Chairman
Data Governance: 7 Essential Practices
Dale Sanders, Senior Vice President of Strategy
Physician-led ACOs: What Is an ACO? A Definitive Guide
Dr. John Haughom, Senior Advisor and Dr. David Burton, Executive Chairman
How Accountable Care Organizations Will Drive Demand for Data Analytics
(a white paper) – Dr. David Burton, Former CEO and Executive Chairman

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Prior to his healthcare experience, Dale Sanders worked for
fourteen years in the military, national-intelligence, and
manufacturing sectors, specializing in analytics and decision
support. In addition to his role at Health Catalyst, he continues
to serve as the senior technology advisor and CIO for the
National Health System in the Cayman Islands. Previously, he
was CIO with the Northwestern University Medical Center, and regional
director of Medical Informatics at Intermountain Healthcare where he served
in a number of capacities, including chief architect of Intermountain’s
enterprise data warehouse. Dale is a founder of the Healthcare Data
Warehousing Association. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in
Chemistry and in Biology from Ft. Lewis College, Durango Colorado, and is a
graduate of the U.S. Air Force Information Systems Engineering program.
A Landmark, 12-Point Review of Population Health Management
Companies (Also by Dale Sanders)