SpectraMedix Blog

By Kenneth Atlee, VP, Information Technology and Security, SpectraMedix

Understanding Big Data in Healthcare: The Three V's

With the rise of risk-bearing arrangements and value-based care, “big data” is becoming more prominent in the sphere of...

Risk-bearing entities such as hospital systems, IDNs, and IPAs are central actors in the stage play that is the value-based care...

Value-based care (VBC) changes the way payers and providers (ACOs, IPAs, etc.) contract with each other. The complexity of the...

For the past ten years social determinants of Health (SDoH) have gained greater importance from health care organizations and...

With a new president in office, the entire country is wondering how one of Biden’s major platforms—healthcare reform—will...

Successful value-based care (VBC) programs use cohort management to impact care beyond a clinical level and address many of the...

Since February 2020, COVID-19 has continued its course throughout the United States. As the year comes to a close, stakeholders...

What Does Rural Mean?

The large majority of American land is rural, so it can often feel like a daunting task to define which...

National patient identification has been a hot topic since HIPAA was enacted in 1996, calling for the development of a unique...

COVID-19 has reignited the conversation regarding social determinants of health (SDoH) as certain minority groups are at a...

Physicians’ attitudes toward value-based care (VBC) have changed within the last four years. In 2016, the majority of physicians...

We’ve all had great ideas on paper. But for our endeavors to come to fruition, they need to be successfully implemented. The same...

As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, the U.S. has become the country with the highest number of confirmed cases. As Americans...