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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...

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Caring 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...

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Helping 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...

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Garden 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...

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Feeding 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.

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Here’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.

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How 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.

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How 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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