The Health Care Reform Debate

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The health care reform debate is once again roiling the U.S. House of Representatives as the new Republican majority moves on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act passed just about a year ago. Their act is called the Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Act Bill and proponents of repeal say that doing [...]

IIA Uncovering the Use of Analytics in Health Care

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Leading payers, providers & life sciences organizations from the health care industry gathered recently for the kickoff of IIA’s Health Care and Life Sciences Analytics Research Council. The goal of the project is to uncover the leading analytical techniques being used within health care. There were some fairly esoteric issues discussed, such as the role [...]

Analytics In Govenment

My friend and IIA colleague Eric McNulty is right in his recent post that there is a lot of talk about analytics in Washington these days. I was there for a SAS event a couple of weeks ago, and it was interesting to think about all the areas where it’s popping up. Eric mentioned health [...]

Deploying Analytics in Healthcare

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On the heels of the passage of a health care reform bill by the U.S. House of Representatives comes a profile of Intermountain Healthcare, a group of hospitals and clinics located in Utah and Idaho, in the New York Times Magazine. If you’ve been following the U.S. health care debate (those of you from the [...]

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