Behavioral Analytics' Role in Uncovering Opioid Addiction Among Highlights of SCIO Health Analytics' Top 5 Blog Posts of Second Half 2017

WEST HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SCIO Health Analytics today announced the Top 5 most-read posts on its blog, SCIOKnow, for the second half of 2017. The posts' unifying theme is that they describe how advanced analytics can help healthcare organizations understand what is currently happening, what is likely to happen and what actions they should take with limited resources in place. In the following posts, SCIO's experts cover a range of topics, from how to use behavioral analytics to uncover insights about opioid addiction, to the need for greater payer-provider collaboration to achieve success in value-based care, to consumerism's growing role in healthcare.

1. Three Ways Behavioral Analytics Can be Leveraged to Understand Opioid Addiction: It is no longer safe to assume that opioid addicts hail from the segment of the population that uses street drugs. Today, it is much more difficult to identify and understand the people who might be addicted to opioids, since all kinds of people – the high school athlete, the middle aged professional, the retired grandmother -- are prescribed opioids for myriad reasons and then are at risk for developing an addiction. David Hom, chief evangelist, and Kevin Keck, MD, chief medical officer, discuss why behavioral analytics are now the go-to resource used to identify opioid addicts.
2. Payers and Providers Start Singing the 'Better Together' Tune: Payers and providers are discovering the value of sharing vast amounts of data -- such as that in claims, clinical, social, economic, and more types -- but sharing is just a start. What is perhaps even more important is that these organizations need the ability to make sense of all this information. This post links to a webinar in which Hom and Lesli Adams, MPA, director of population health strategy with Oracle Corporation, describe how payers and providers can leverage data and analytics to advance goals such as managing risk and revenue and optimizing reimbursement.
3. Five Ways to Use Data for Advanced Analytics to Succeed in Value-based Care: By using advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics within daily workflows, healthcare organizations are able to confidently allocate resources to focus on high-value opportunities that will improve both clinical and financial outcomes. In this post, Eileen Cianciolo, chief product officer, details five ways that healthcare organizations can accelerate success with value-based initiatives by leveraging advanced analytics, including how to avoid costly procedures and services and how to deliver more personalized care.
4. Data Quality: The Art and the Science: Despite the existence of many standards and protocols regarding healthcare data, the problem of translating and consolidating data across many sources of information in a reliable and repeatable way is a tremendous challenge. At the heart of this challenge is recognizing when quality has been compromised. The successful implementation of a data-quality program within an organization, similar to medicine, also combines science with an art form. Ben Steverman, chief technology officer, describes the basic framework that is essential to data quality initiatives, and also discusses some of the lesser-understood processes that need to be in place in order to succeed.
5. Consumerism in a World of Value-based Care: For consumers, the rise of value-based care will bring changes in how healthcare is paid for and delivered. In this short video interview, Hom and Jonathan Niloff, MD, president of Niloff Healthcare Strategies, discuss the incentives driving active consumer participation in value-based care and how consumer-driven care can lead to better patient engagement and improved health outcomes.

SCIO Health Analytics' blog, SCIOKnow, covers all things related to healthcare data analytics solutions and services. The blog publishes on a weekly basis and features approximately a dozen authors who are subject matter experts in a broad array of topics, including population health, payment integrity, risk-adjustment, care management, opportunity analysis and incentive design, consumer segmentation and engagement, network performance and commercial effectiveness.

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Based in West Hartford, Connecticut, SCIO Health Analytics is a leading health analytics solution and services company. It serves over 100 healthcare organizations across the continuum including over 30 providers and health services organizations and 60 health plans representing more than 130 million members, three of the top five PBMs, and clients in 30 countries for 10 of the top 15 global Life Sciences companies. SCIO provides predictive analytic solutions and services that transform data into actionable insights, helping healthcare organizations create the understanding that drives change through care, network and reimbursement optimization as well as commercial effectiveness. SCIO's insights as a service approach supports the shift to value-based care, solving healthcare problems simply and efficiently. Visit SCIO's new website for up to date information on their product and solution offerings: www.sciohealthanalytics.com

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