Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences: Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices (FT Press Operations Management)

Davenport, Thomas H.

ISBN 10: 0133407330 / ISBN 13: 9780133407334

Published by Pearson FT Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences: Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices (FT Press Operations Management)
• Publisher: Pearson FT Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133407330
• ISBN 13: 9780133407334
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 2.5W x 16.2H x 23.5D centimeters 2.5 centimeters width by 16.2 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

Make healthcare analytics work: leverage its powerful opportunities for improving outcomes, cost, and efficiency.This book gives you the practical 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 prov

About the Author

Dwight McNeill, Ph.D., MPH, is a Lecturer at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, where he teaches population health and health policy. He is President of WayPoint Health Analytics, which provides guidance to organizations on the analytics of population health management, behavior change, and innovation diffusion. He is the author of A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare: What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports (FT Press 2013) and numerous journal articles including “The Value of Building Sustainable Health Care Systems: Capturing the Benefits of Health Plan Transformation” (Health Affairs).

 

Over his thirty year career in healthcare, he has held analytics positions in corporations at IBM and GTE; governments at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; analytics companies; and provider settings.