Healthcare Analytics: Leveraging data to transform health care
In today’s reform environment, the importance of turning data into timely and informed decision-making is a fundamental requirement for health care provider organizations. Analytics are vital to...
View ArticleCaring for those with the greatest needs
Hospital systems around the world share a common problem: a repetitive cycle of readmissions by certain patients. Research indicates there are a variety of reasons some people end up returning to the...
View ArticleHelping to grow healthier communities
Caring for people isn’t just about tending to them when they are sick or hurt. OSF HealthCare is focused on improving the lives of the people in the communities we serve by working to keep them...
View ArticleGarden Share program addresses food insecurity for seniors
Faith in Action at OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville, Illinois, has identified food insecurity among seniors as a focus of its community outreach. Faith in Action provides help to...
View ArticleFeeding the poor to improve community health
How OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center nurses addressed food insecurity and transformed health care in Peoria’s poorest neighborhoods.
View ArticleHere’s how herd immunity works
To protect a community from infection, 70-80% of the population needs to get individual immunity, either naturally or through vaccination.
View ArticleHow COVID-19 mutates and how it affects vaccines
An infectious disease physician explains how viruses mutate and what we know about the new strain first detected in the United Kingdom.
View ArticleHow data can narrow your innovation focus
OSF Innovation, along with Bradley University are developing ways to utilize data to drive innovations in health care and identify specific groups that need the most attention within the populations...
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