Governor Baker Appointments GNS Healthcare’s Colin Hill to the Health Information and Analysis Oversight Council

BOSTON, Mass. – September 22, 2015 – Today, Governor Charlie Baker announced three appointments to the Health Information and Analysis Oversight Council charged with developing the Center for Health Information and Analysis’ (CHIA) research agenda and analytic priorities. “I’m pleased to appoint three of the brightest minds in healthcare, big data and financing to positions […]

Getting to the Essence of Value in Health Care

In this era of value-based payment, we need to consider how different players within health care approach the value equation. How would you judge the value of your health care? A longstanding definition of treatment holds that value is the health outcomes achieved for the dollars spent. Yet behind that seemingly simple formula lies much […]

How machine-learning driven interventions can build value in health care

One of the main goals of efforts to improve the quality of health care in the U.S. is to reduce variation in care, where some patients are treated optimally while others miss out on the best of medicine. This is a key driver behind the focus on population health, which in recent decades has spawned […]

Health Care of the Future: Big brains buoy big ideas for big data

Joe Gray, one of Oregon Health & Science University’s star cancer researchers, put it best. There’s so much data out there, sometimes it’s like “getting hit with a fire hose.” “We have to do a better job of taking the data and distilling it into information,” said Gray, who is associate director for translational research […]

Aetna.com: Using “Big Data” to Predict – and Improve – Your Health

Aetna’s Innovation Labs teamed up with GNS Healthcare to use “big data” to predict the one-year risk of developing metabolic syndrome. The groups used computer models to study information from 37,000 members of one of Aetna’s employer customers. Read the complete article here…