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Sandlot Solutions understands exactly what information you need how to deliver it. Our fourth-generation health information exchan analytics combines clinical knowledge and claims data with busin intelligence to help you manage risk and demonstrate value. Executive Briefing: Big Data 43 Sponsored by: Through our "digital envelope," you receive compliance and eviden based care alerts at the point of care, within your workflow. You g high-level visibility to monitor quality measurements, patient outco and population trends. And, of course, the digital envelope works w our care manager platform or yours. All of this through the cloud. Find us, and we'll make sure the right information finds you. Call 800-370-1393 or visit sandlotsolutions.com for more informati Big Data and HIEs are Paving the Way to Meaningful Population Health Management By Joe Casper, CEO, Sandlot Solutions D igitizing each aspect of the healthcare industry requires time and space for growth, adoption and evolution before truly taking root. While it could be another two or three years before big data really gets its legs, decisions that healthcare providers make now about the collection, storage and analysis of data will affect their ability to harness the power of big data in the long term. efficiently. Historically, hospitals owned the majority of this clinical and financial data. Unfortunately, much of it was siloed and still required manual processes and a team of analysts to meaningfully tie it together. Moreover, even with that, we didn't have a complete picture of the patient, because anything that happened outside the walls of the hospital was often not fully reflected in the data. Big data defined As more electronic health record platforms come online (more than half of all physicians in the U.S. now use EHRs), we can tap into patient data from providers outside the walls of the hospital. We need only look at the number of times we seek health services outside of the hospital to understand how much additional, relevant data this will yield. The integration of data from new sources, coupled with the promise of big data, should work together to reduce healthcare costs and provide a more transparent and patient-centered ecosystem. Many people tell me that even after reading a number of articles on the subject of big data, they walk away uncertain of what the term really means, as there seem to be many interpretations and nuances. My definition of big data is fairly straightforward: It's scalable, streaming data in many forms (structured, unstructured, text, multimedia, etc.) that can be accessed for real-time decision making. Big data also refers to the next evolution of how we can capture, absorb and interpret vast amounts of data accurately and