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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Case Study
December 2, 2015
Improving Data Quality to Eliminate $4M in Discrepancies
Business Driver Our Client, one of the nation’s top 5 healthcare Payers, was experiencing a large number of data quality …
Insight Paper
December 9, 2015
A Brief Intro to GIS
Whether you work in marketing, strategy, finance, technology, product development or analytics, data is likely an important driver of your work. Words like ‘big data’ or ‘data visualization’ can be intimidating to those who do not fall under roles like data architect or analyst, but it doesn’t have to be. Displaying data in a way…
Case Study
January 13, 2016
Developing Business Solutions With Free and Open Software
Our Client, the Chief Actuarial Officer of a large healthcare Payer, had an urgent need to improve reporting insights into their predicted and actual membership. Challenging Trexin to help him develop an interim solution in less than 90 days, our Client asked us to create reporting tools based on currently. . .
Insight Paper
January 26, 2016
How GIS Applies to Healthcare
Healthcare has strong geographical ties. There are endless determinants that affect the health of an individual, including physical, social, economic, and cultural considerations. While every individual will have a unique compilation of these factors that will contribute to their health, looking at determinants at the population level allows for more. . .
Insight Paper
January 28, 2016
Leveraging Pragmatic Agile for Government Programs
Agile, or Agile project management, is a technique that was originally created for software development 15 years ago. It is a successful methodology, widely-used across multiple industries, that promotes incremental and iterative development and emphasizes collaboration and adaptability throughout a project.
Case Study
February 16, 2016
Building an IT Operating Model for a Large Health Insurer
Our Client, one of the largest customer-owned health insurance companies in the country, needed to improve the efficiency and the quality of output generated by their IT organization. Their lines of business (LOB) are incredibly diverse, including government, group, and retail consumer healthcare plans. These LOBs exist at different. . .
Event Summary
March 22, 2016
March 2016 The Chicago Forum for Justice in Health Policy
The Chicago Forum for Justice in Health Policy presented “Reforming Illinois’ Public Health Data Systems” on March 4, 2016, at Loyola University’s Chicago School of Law Health and Medicine. Over 120 participants made up of public health professionals, state and local government staff, researchers, health advocates, insurers, and the general. . .
Case Study
March 30, 2016
Evaluating Readiness for Future Healthcare Business Models
Our Client, one of the oldest, self-sustaining Health Information Exchanges (HIE) in the country, was facing significant disruption in their industry. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare providers and accountable care organizations (ACO) that made up our Client’s customer base suddenly demanded more robust patient. . .
Case Study
April 26, 2016
Quantifying ICU Cost and Outcomes for the Uninsured
The lack of health insurance is often associated with reduced access to many health services. However, the relationship between lack of insurance and use of intensive care unit (ICU) services is unclear.