Introduction Evidence-based medicine. Personal electronic health records. Disease management. Personalized medicine. These terms, among many others, reflect a rapidly growing change within the health sciences ecosystem-a transformative shift toward more information-based decision making related to patient care and healthcare cost management. For decades, the efficiencies and improvements attained in other industries through the adoption of information technology have largely been missing

Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................... 161 Analysis Paralysis ...............................................................................................162 Analytical Maturity and Objectives ...................................................................163 The Eight Levels of Analytics .............................................................................164 Business vs. Clinical Analytics ...........................................................................167 Improving Organizational Performance .............................................................169 Lowering Healthcare Costs ................................................................................173 Improving Healthcare Outcomes.......................................................................176 Summary ...........................................................................................................179 Acknowledgment ..............................................................................................180

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