Analytics

Government authorities, health organizations and private players trying to lower expenditures are a driving force.

Many federal and state laws already mandate up-to-date provider directories.

Talix application analyzes member data from claims, electronic medical records and scanned paper documents to increase coding efficiency.

For some, acquiring technology, building data infrastructure and hiring IT professionals to crunch the data is just too costly.

Model uses simulations to come up with strategies based on a host of desired outcomes.

Officials will add 10 new categories involving a population of about a half a million people, according to the measure's proponents.

Benchmarks for expected returns are also needed, it said, as well as a deeper understanding of how investment mechanisms, such as bonds and social finance, can help improve healthcare.

Tran has led finance teams for several top-ranked health plans.

Top reason for using advanced analytics, especially within pop health programs, is enabling interventions that prevent health declines, study says.

Pathologists at a dozen hospitals in the state are part of a pilot project -- the first of its kind in the United States -- in which they are reporting cancer diagnoses in close to real-time to the California Cancer Registry. And they are using standardized electronic forms to make their reporting more consistent and accurate.