Setting Yourself Up for Data Analytics Success

One of the most promising personalized immunotherapy approaches currently being explored in the clinic is cancer vaccines. These vaccines especially patient-tailored versions known as neoantigen vaccines are capable of educating patients’ immune systems about what their individual tumors look like, and in turn, have the potential to improve the immune system’s ability to target and eliminate cancer.

As the healthcare industry moves toward value-based care, payers are increasingly concerned with clinical outcomes. Health plans are finding that they need to leverage all clinical and administrative data, in addition to claims data, to improve member health and optimize reimbursement within value-based payment models. Harmonizing data across the healthcare continuum presents a significant challenge due to the variety of disconnected data elements that must be connected to get a true 360-degree view of member health. Before healthcare organizations can effectively benefit from the data’s value, the data itself needs to be normalized to achieve semantic interoperability.

To deal with the current staffing crisis, health systems feel forced to rely on costly external staffing agencies, which is killing hospital and health system operating margins.

With new software vulnerabilities being discovered every day, it’s not a matter of if, but a question of when hackers will use these vulnerabilities to infiltrate a healthcare organization. A survey commissioned by ServiceNow with the Ponemon Institute revealed 50% of respondents experienced one or more data breaches in the last two years. The majority of cybersecurity experts are struggling to keep pace. Faced with hacker onslaught, healthcare organizations need new approaches to keep patient data, assets and their information safe.