MarkLogic recently participated in a Becker’s Hospital Review podcast sponsored by NTT Data. The panel of speakers offer expert insight into how their companies are partnering to better manage data sources and advance intelligent decision-making and program development in healthcare. The speakers included Karen Way and Dr. Suman De, Global Practice Leads for Health Plan Data and Intelligence at NTT Data Services; Jim Sears, Senior Director of Global Strategic Alliances; Bill Fox, VP

Just a few years ago, health systems were generally operated as revenue centers—the more patients seen, the more money made. But, in today’s reality of outcomes-based reimbursement, hospitals must be run as cost centers—ensuring their margins by eliminating the process inefficiencies and waste that contribute to hospital readmissions, reduced reimbursement and costly penalties.

To improve quality of care while reducing unnecessary costs (e.g., duplicate tests, avoidable readmissions), providers

Historically, there has been great resistance to data analysis by clinicians who just want to practice medicine as they were taught. But, today we know that measuring data is crucial to ensuring quality of care because it provides “x-ray vision” into a patient’s life. In this video, David Nace, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at MarkLogic, addresses the critical impact of data on quality of care and patient health outcomes.

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We’re  a few weeks into open enrollment 2016 and millions of Americans are shopping healthcare plans and finding affordable care through Healthcare.gov. MarkLogic is grateful to continue to play a crucial role in the success of Healthcare.gov – one of the healthcare world’s most ambitious operational data integration projects. The infographic below illustrates the immense data challenges that were successfully met by MarkLogic to empower consumers to quickly find the best healthcare coverage to