SI members are blazing new trails in the uncertain environment of population health and accountable care. That was the message from SI’s 24th Annual Conference “Innovation for Value-Based Care” in Scottsdale, Ariz. Discussions, presentations and audience interaction at the Camelback Inn demonstrated that innovation and transformation are more than marketing slogans...

How mature can population-health analytics be if we can’t get our polling data right for a national election? That’s the important question raised by some pundits for healthcare organizations pursuing population health: If Big Data analytics wasn’t sharp enough to predict Trump winning the presidency, how can we expect it to drive population health...

We like to stay innovative in our ‘traditional’ January “Outlook” issue for SI’s Inside Edge report and we think we’ve achieved that with our first “Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) Outlook for 2017.” Trailblazing health systems - no earlier than 2010 - created the CNIO title in recognition that nursing is...