Eric Bailey is Project Manager of Digital Events and Video at HIMSS Media. He produces webinars, virtual events, podcasts and video content for all HIMSS brands.
Nephi Walton, MD, MS, of Washington University School of Medicine, shares an example from his experience using data analytics to help predict unanticipated surges in patient volume, allowing the children's hospital he worked at to forecast the need for increased staffing and budget accordingly.
"There can be a snowball effect, where you have more and more costs that often could have been prevented by just doing better primary care." - James A. Colbert, MD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.