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Jason Burke
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Senior Advisor for Advanced Analytics and Innovation at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care System's Center for Innovation

With a career spanning clinical research, organizational development, and enterprise information technology, Jason Burke’s current work focuses on health industry transformation through strategy design, data sciences, and emerging technologies. His most recent book is Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care.

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Transforming medicine: from antibiotics to analytics

Health reform incentives for the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) have created a watershed event for business analytics.  Whereas hospital EMR adoption was a paltry 12% less than 4 years ago, today more than 6,000 hospitals and 390,000 providers are participating.  Combined with Medicare/Medicaid incentives that require shared data