“ Analytics are an important module in our population health platform . We look at the trends , we look at the behaviour of the data , the behaviour of the population and we connect the dots ”
— Bashar Balish , CIO , Ministry of Health
in terms of the calibre of service it provides ,” according to Emirates Crown Prince his Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan . Balish says , “ We ’ ve been working closely with the physicians and nurses in order to achieve their organisation ’ s goals of becoming smarter and more relevant to their business , as well as to the community they ’ re serving and enabling . My own role is focused on making sure that the tools these physicians and nurses use are smart enough to support the program and to push it to the next level by providing both an automated way of running things and smart analytics .”
Balish believes that analytics will increasingly reshape the way healthcare organisations approach population health , an idea that he places at the forefront of the healthcare industry ’ s unfolding story . “ Over the last 15 to 20 years , we ’ ve seen healthcare management extend past the four walls of the hospital . The factors that interfere with your health
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the population better , to connect different variables around healthcare to one platform and manage that population to improve the health of our communities ,” says Balish . “ Analytics is an important module in our population health platform . We look at the trends , we look at the behaviour of the data and the behaviour of the population and we connect the dots . We predict trends , predict behaviours in the population and suggest protocols to manage these trends . We are seeing that analytics have shifted the operational model of the organisation
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