Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices

Make healthcare analytics work: leverage its powerful opportunities for improving outcomes, cost, and efficiency.This book gives you thepractical frameworks, strategies, tactics, and case studies you need to go beyond talk to action. The contributing healthcare analytics innovators survey the field’s current state, present start-to-finish guidance for planning and implementation, and help decision-makers prepare for tomorrow’s advances. They present in-depth case studies revealing how leading organizations have organized and executed analytic strategies that work, and fully cover the primary applications of analytics in all three sectors of the healthcare ecosystem: Provider, Payer, and Life Sciences. Co-published with the International Institute for Analytics (IIA), this book features the combined expertise of IIA’s team of leading health analytics practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is written by a member of the IIA faculty, and bridges the latest research findings with proven best practices. This book will be valuable to professionals and decision-makers throughout the healthcare ecosystem, including provider organization clinicians and managers; life sciences researchers and practitioners; and informaticists, actuaries, and managers at payer organizations. It will also be valuable in diverse analytics, operations, and IT courses in business, engineering, and healthcare certificate programs.

DWIGHT McNEILL (Little Compton, RI), PH.D., MPH, President of WayPoint Health, consults on healthcare analytics to improve decision making, engage customers and patients, and optimize financing and delivery. He is guest lecturer at Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School; and Lead Faculty member at IIA’s Health Care & Life Sciences Analytics Research Council. His recent publications include The Value of Building Sustainable Health Care Systems; Building Organizational Capacity; and Patient Centered Care as Public Policy (from Putting Patients First).  

Foreword by Tom Davenport

Introduction

Overview of Analytics in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Ecosystem

Current State and Future Directions for Analytics

Focus on Key Clinical, Insurance and Privacy Issues with Analytics

Profiles of Analytics Practice of Industry Leaders

Case Studies on Building Analytics Capacity

Conclusions: The Way Forward

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