Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare

Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights – both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization’s day-to-day operations is becoming vital to hospitals and health systems ability to survive and prosper. One of the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics has been the ability to deal with the sheer variety and volume of disparate healthcare data and the increasing need to derive veracity and value out of it.

The variety of data in healthcare spans multiple business workflows, formats (structured, un-, and semi-structured), integration at point of care/need, and integration with existing

knowledge. In order to deal with these realities, this book proposes a new approach to creating a knowledge-driven learning organization-based on new and existing strategies, methods and technologies.

This book will investigate how hospitals and health systems can leverage this tapestry of big data to discover new business value, use cases, and knowledge as well as how big data can be woven into pre-existing business intelligence and analytics efforts at hospitals and health systems. Finally, this book will address challenges and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them.

Herb Smaltz is the Founder, President & CEO of CIO Consult, LLC, a strategic IT consulting firm. Prior to founding CIO Consult, Herb founded Health Care DataWorks, a healthcare business intelligence software company which earned the distinction of a Gartner "Cool Vendor" prior to being acquired in 2015. Prior to his consulting and entrepreneurial career, Herb served as the CIO of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, a $1.7B, 6 hospital academic medical center comprising more than 1100 beds and over 13,000 FTEs. Herb has over 25 years of experience in healthcare management with all but four of those years as CIO/CKO at various sized organizations including a 20-bed community hospital, a 300-bed tertiary referral medical center, an 1100-bed tertiary referral medical center, a 5-state region, a 7-country international region and at the corporate headquarters of a $6.2B globally distributed integrated delivery system. He is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (FHIMSS) and has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors from 2002-2005 and as the HIMSS 2004-2005 BOD Vice Chair. In addition, he is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).

His recent publications include Information Systems for Healthcare Management, 8th Edition, with Gerald Glandon and Donna Slovensky, Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, 2014; The Healthcare Information Technology Planning Fieldbook, with George "Buddy" Hickman, HIMSS Publications, Chicago, IL, 2008; The Executive’s Guide to Electronic Health Records with E. Berner, Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, 2007; The CEO-CIO Partnership: Harnessing the Value of Information Technology in Healthcare, eds. Smaltz, D., Glaser, J., Skinner, R. and Cunningham III, T., HIMSS Publications, Chicago, IL 2005.

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John C. Frenzel, MD, is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine and completed his fellowship training in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2001 he received a master’s degree in Informatics from the University of Texas. Dr. Frenzel has been active in Informatics throughout his career at MD Anderson. In addition to several clinical leadership roles, in 2009 was asked to coordinate the development installation of MD Anderson’s Clinical Data Warehouse which sought to bring together clinical and genomic data. In 2011 he was asked to lead the institution’s effort to install the Epic EHR. He has published on topics pertaining to Clinical Informatics and hospital revenue optimization efforts based on Time Driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC). He is Board certified in both Anesthesiology and Informatics.

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Prashant Natarajan is Director of Product Management at Oracle, where he leads a portfolio of informatics products covering population health management, precision medicine, and clinical and financial analytics. His experience prior to Oracle includes global roles in healthcare strategy, product management, and solution architecture at eCredit.com, Siemens, McKesson, and Healthways.

Prashant received his chemical engineering degree from Mangalore University (India) in 1998, his master’s degree in technical and professional communications from Auburn University (USA) in 2005, and his certification in advanced project management from Stanford University (USA) in 2012. He is a prior recipient of the SBC/Chancellor’s Endowed Fellowship for graduate research. Prashant is a contributing author to two books – one of which is a HIMSS best seller; the other is a graduate-

level textbook in international business communications. He has presented and chaired panels at prominent conferences on varied topics such as informatics in precision medicine and oncology, improving the patient experience, data science, and usability.

Prashant serves on the Board of Advisors for the Washington DC-based Council for Affordable Health Coverage. He has been an active contributor to HIMSS and IEEE, and currently serves as Co-Chair of the HIMSS Nor Cal Chapter’s Annual Innovation Showcase in the Silicon Valley. He was on the Board

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