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Josh MorganMay 26, 2020 3

Whole person education has never been more important

You may not have heard the term "whole person education" before but it recognizes the critical intersection of schools and a young person's behavioral health. When I was running youth behavioral health treatment programs, schools were a major part of raising awareness and advocating for help for many kids. I

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Education | Government

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Lee Ann DietzMay 22, 2020 1

Respond, recover, reimagine: How government agencies can emerge stronger

If you are a government leader, or one of the millions of people employed in the public sector globally, these last 100 days have probably been the most challenging of your lifetime. It is also an unprecedented opportunity to show how dedicated public servants and their agencies can best serve

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Government

Analytics

Josh MorganMay 14, 2020 0

Supporting behavioral health during a global pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven up awareness of behavioral health need to new levels. As we honor Mental Health Month, schools, governments, and private companies are all talking about how to support people’s behavioral health. This is wonderful progress compared to our global history of speaking of mental health and

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Tom WrigginsNovember 15, 2019 0

Fighting fraud in the new world of Value-Based Payments

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Josh MorganMay 22, 2019 5

Can we evaluate whole person suffering?

As we honor Mental Health Month, there are many calls to reduce suffering. Seems reasonable, right? It’s even in California’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), where public systems are called to “reduce subjective suffering.” And as we broadly focus more on outcomes in health, measuring suffering (and hopefully its reduction)

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good

Steve KearneyMarch 6, 2019 0

Washington Post, new SAS user group, highlight need to collaborate on opioid epidemic

I was recently honored to share the stage with government and medical leaders to discuss ways to impact the nation’s opioid epidemic. Hosted by The Washington Post, this event included often spirited conversations on ways to solve this national crisis. As the medical director for SAS US Government, I have

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Government | Health Care

Analytics

John MaynardFebruary 18, 2019 0

Data-driven is better: Lessons from handicapping the ponies

Data-driven is a buzzword again. It feels new and shiny but has been around for years. Yet, people still ask what it means to be data-driven. If you wonder why it’s important to be data-driven, you might ask your bookie. Yes, I said your bookie. In thinking about when I

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good

Tom SaboJanuary 29, 2019 0

Analytics can help combat the horrors of human trafficking

January serves as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, culminating in the annual observation of National Freedom Day on February 1. For many, this month presents an opportunity to refocus efforts to slow, and ultimately stop, human trafficking around the globe, but especially here in the United States. The

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Government

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Josh MorganJanuary 24, 2019 3

Can AI in healthcare help us identify high-risk people across systems?

Many of the buzzy applications of AI in healthcare we hear about involve medical IoT, computer vision for radiology or disease prediction. But the fact is, many health institutions that just aren’t there yet with adoption. With limited budgets and dated systems, can public health agencies tap into the power

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Data Management

Mike PflugDecember 18, 2018 0

With government data sharing, don’t be a data scrooge

Encouraging data sharing can sometimes feel like refereeing kids on Christmas morning. “Mom said you have to SHARE!” my sister bawled, grabbing at the Game Boy in my hand as I held the toy just out of her reach. I had just gotten it as a Christmas present and had

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