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Medicare data is being used to produce better healthcare for older adults, and at the Louisville Innovation Summit CareSet CEO Laura Shapland joined a panel of health experts and discussed how open healthcare data is being used during a session called “When Seniors, Medicare Data and Pharma Collide: The Right Drugs, to the Right Patients, […]

LOUISVILLE, KY (PRWEB) OCTOBER 12, 2016 – CareSet Systems CEO Laura Shapland addressed making healthcare data more accessible and easier to use during this week’s Louisville Innovation Summit, an annual event where this year innovators and executives gathered to address the future of aging care. CareSet Systems currently uses all of Medicare A,B, and D […]

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2016 (PR Web) – Health data scientist Fred Trotter presented today at the White House Open Data Innovation Summit around national health data transparency. Trotter is the founder of DocGraph which released the US government’s first national Provider referral pattern data in 2012 that enabled researchers, journalists, and companies around the nation […]

CareSet Systems is the first Medicare Data Vendor. Soon, we will release our first analysis from Medicaid and also be the first Medicare/Medicaid data vendor. We think this will make CareSet into the “innovator’s dilemma” for the healthcare data industry. Traditional data vendors like IMS, Truven, Optum and First Databank will likely continue to do […]

Recently, we had some trouble with the cloud services from Google one of our primary cloud vendors. In response, I wrote this very strongly worded blog post on my personal blog. Then we tweeted. Within four hours, Google had restored our services, and within a few hours of that, we were able to run down […]

This analysis identifies general trends and top performers within each segment of Medicare Part A (hospital care) to provide a better understanding of how Medicare has changed in recent years. A steady rise in health care costs appears to be favoring large organizations and driving a shift from billing procedures as inpatient to outpatient services. […]

WASHINGTON — Health data scientist Fred Trotter joined Vice President Joe Biden and other national healthcare leaders today for the invitation-only National Cancer Moonshot Summit. The Vice President announced that Trotter’s company, DocGraph, will release an open cancer dataset this year. The new dataset contains summarized information about almost a million Medicare cancer patients and […]

Houston—Two Houston health IT startups are among the private companies enlisted by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in his national cancer moonshot initiative, designed to speed up efforts that could cure cancer. DocGraph and CareSet Systems, both based in Houston, are developing a cancer dataset that would contain summarized information on nearly a million Medicare […]

My Programmable Self Behavior Change Reading list has been one of my most popular posts.I still think any Health IT expert should be well-versed in behavior change science, since so many healthcare issues boil down to behavior change problems… either for patients or providers or both.But the other day, I was having drinks during HIMSS […]

I guess I qualify as a research parasite, according to the recent editorialpublished in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The controversy that followed led to a subsequent “non-apology,” a term I use because NEJM did not offer a shift in their stance as much as they tried to slink out of the spotlight. […]