Reading new insight into facility budgets

In health care we tend to think of big data in terms of patient diagnostics. While that data may yield financial benefits through better outcomes, a company called Visiquate is providing next-generation business analytic solutions for the explicit goal of improving a hospital's bottom line.


The company counts Cleveland Clinic among the clients utilizing their actionable workflows and interpretive data processes for generating meaningful cost comprehension. Brian Robertson, founder and CEO, says a key feature of Visiquate's solution is the way it encourages collaboration among team members. In a sense, they provide diagnostic insight on the hospital itself.

Efficient, affordable, better...

There is an entrepreneurial synergy among the 40,000-plus attendees and 1,326 exhibitors at HIMSS 2015. It's as if several companies are inching ever-closer to that singular innovation that will finally unlock a health care revolution. For many of the visitors in Chicago this week, a complete package of data — and a perfect system for comprehending all of it — could hold the key to making that happen.

In some ways, it's like mapping the genome. Or better yet, it's like stepping outside of the Matrix. That's what it will mean when data truly sings — and at HIMSS this year new chords are being struck and new harmonies are forming. From a business standpoint, the fact that nobody has pinned the tail squarely on the donkey makes a conference like this all the more exciting.

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