Healthcare analytics software processes and analyzes the massive amounts of data that a health care organization regularly collects into actionable insight that impacts operational benefits and patient outcomes. Healthcare analytics, also referred to as healthcare business intelligence, also improves the collection, management, and sharing of patient and clinical data. Health care providers lean on the data warehouse that makes up a significant portion of healthcare analytics software to maintain the health of their organization, comply with changing industry legislature, and optimize both population health and individual patient management. Healthcare analytics software ranges from comprehensive data reporting to predictive and prescriptive analytics.
To qualify for inclusion in the Healthcare Analytics category, a product must:
- Provide a health care-specific data warehouse to capture and maintain health care data
- Analyze and visualize collected and analyzed data
- Integrate with EHRs