BOSTON—Penn Medicine set out to decrease its sepsis mortality index since the rate of incidence was increasing and the organization’s SMI was higher than the median of the University HealthSystem Consortium.

BOSTON—Physician-led accountable care organizations are overtaking hospital-led ones, said James Colbert, MD, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and consultant for ACO Learning Network at The Brookings Institution, at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

BOSTON—How are larger organizations approaching opportunities in big data and health analytics? Executives from Boston Children’s Hospital, UMass Memorial Health and Partners HealthCare shared their thoughts at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

BOSTON--Leadership at Carolinas Healthcare System looked at HIMSS Level 7 facilities in an effort to find out how they could get there as quickly as possible, said Michael Dulin, MD, PhD, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes research, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

BOSTON—The changing healthcare landscape means providers must “remake the delivery system to survive and succeed in the new healthcare world,” said Robert M. Wachter, MD, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

BOSTON—Healthcare data are diverse, and range from claims to EMR data to genomic, lab, imaging and continuous physiological data. How to deploy big data analytics in healthcare and successfully move technology into practice is on the mind of Suchi Saria, assistant professor in computer science at Johns Hopkins University, who spoke at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

BOSTON--“Healthcare is a mess” and the industry sorely needs more systems engineering to bolster patient and provider safety, said Jeanne Huddleston, MD, medical director of the health systems engineering program at the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

Private oncologists are being forced to sell or close their practices because insurers have severely reduced payments to them and because the drugs they prescribe patients are now so expensive, reports The New York Times.