Leveraging Data in Healthcare

The healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated transition. The proliferation of data and its assimilation, access, use, and security are ever-increasing challenges. Finding ways to operationalize business and clinical data management in the face of government and market mandates is enough to keep most chief officers up at night.

Leveraging Data in Healthcare: Best Practices for Controlling, Analyzing, and Using Data argues that the key to survival for any healthcare organization in today’s data-saturated market is to fundamentally redefine the roles of chief information executives—CIOs, CFOs, CMIOs, CTOs, CNIOs, CTOs and CDOs—from suppliers of data todrivers of data intelligence.

Leveraging Data in Healthcare presents best practices in revenue integrity support, revenue management, and patient engagement to connect patient financial services, information management services, patient engagement, and electronic operational integration of health and financial information to active decision support of revenue integrity and compliance management. The book also addresses the increasing impact consumer engagement has on an organization’s bottom line, and the need for collaboration between information chiefs and directors of patient financial services.

Rebecca Mendoza Saltiel Busch is the founder and chief executive officer of Medical Business Associates, Inc. (MBA), established in 1991 as a minority, woman-owned medical data auditing and healthcare consulting firm. She attributes her company’s success to the development and implementation of a unique analytical workflow process—interactive and iterative behavioral model, system, and method for detecting fraud, waste, and abuse—that identifies all critical tasks, conditions, and standards to promote a stable, dynamic, and scalable healthcare business. In addition to holding eight U.S. patents, authoring three books and 52 articles, delivering more than 100 presentations, and serving as an adjunct professor, Ms. Busch has provided expert testimony on health-related issues in both state and federal court.