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Industry Analysis9 min read

February 18, 2026

The Dashboard Era Is Over. Here's What Replaces It.

79% of dashboards go unused within six months of deployment. The problem isn't adoption — it's that dashboards answer the questions analysts thought to ask, not the questions clinicians actually have. We examine the shift from descriptive to interrogative analytics.

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Industry Analysis11 min read

February 12, 2026

Why PowerBI Fails Healthcare: A Data Analyst's Honest Assessment

DAX date calculations break on 30-day readmission windows. ICD-10 hierarchies require custom lookup tables. MIPS exclusion criteria overwhelm native Q&A. An honest technical breakdown of where PowerBI hits the wall in clinical analytics.

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Revenue Optimization8 min read

February 5, 2026

The Hidden Cost of Tableau for Healthcare Organizations

The sticker price is the smallest number on your Tableau invoice. A mid-size 200-bed hospital routinely spends $400–800K per year on analytics infrastructure — and achieves 21% actual dashboard usage. Here's the full cost accounting.

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Compliance & Regulatory12 min read

January 28, 2026

MIPS 2026: How to Avoid the 9% Medicare Penalty

A practical, step-by-step guide to the 2026 MIPS performance year. Who qualifies, how to select your best six quality measures, what documentation survives an audit, and the timeline that determines whether you get a bonus or a penalty.

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Clinical Intelligence10 min read

January 20, 2026

30-Day Readmissions Cost US Hospitals $26 Billion. Here's the Data.

2,583 hospitals received CMS readmission penalties in FY2024, averaging $217,000 each. The root causes from claims data, the LACE score methodology, and how discharge analytics identify high-risk patients before they return through the ED.

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Clinical Intelligence9 min read

January 14, 2026

We Analyzed 2,500 RPM Patients. Here's What the Compliance Data Shows.

67% of enrolled RPM patients hit the 16-reading monthly threshold. Among the 33% who don't, device connectivity failures account for 41% of non-compliance. Practices with systematic compliance monitoring earn 75% more per RPM patient.

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Clinical Intelligence10 min read

January 7, 2026

387K Behavioral Health Diagnoses: What Post-COVID Data Tells Us

Anxiety disorder diagnoses up 67%. PTSD up 89%. 71% of behavioral health encounters now via telehealth. A five-year analysis of 387,000 behavioral health diagnoses reveals structural shifts that primary care and specialty practices must plan for now.

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Revenue Optimization9 min read

December 30, 2025

The Average Clinic Leaves $150K/Year on the Table from Missed Level 4 Billing

23% of 99213 encounters in a 500-chart audit actually met 99214 criteria. At 150 encounters per week, that's $1,863 in missed revenue every week — $93,150 per provider per year. The 2021 E&M changes made this worse, not better.

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Revenue Optimization10 min read

December 22, 2025

We Found $2.1M in Missed Revenue from Unfilled Annual Wellness Visits

An 8,500-patient Medicare panel. 4,200 AWV-eligible patients. 2,050 visits never scheduled. The direct revenue is $410K/year, but when you account for HCC coding improvement and downstream risk adjustment, the number reaches $2.1 million.

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Industry Analysis11 min read

December 15, 2025

How NHS Trusts Are Using Analytics to Tackle the Waiting List Crisis

7.5 million patients on NHS waiting lists. The £8 billion elective recovery fund. How Trusts are applying demand forecasting, priority scoring, and DNA rate analytics to RTT targets — and what data infrastructure makes it possible.

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Industry Analysis11 min read

December 8, 2025

Data Analytics and Saudi Arabia's Health Transformation: What Providers Need to Know

NPHIES. Nine health clusters. 5.8 million new insurance enrollees. Saudi Vision 2030 is the largest health system restructuring in the region's history — and analytics compliance is mandatory, not optional, for providers operating in the Kingdom.

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Industry Analysis10 min read

December 1, 2025

The EHR Gatekeeping Problem: Why Healthcare Data Should Belong to Healthcare Organizations

Epic's Caboodle costs $200K–500K+ to unlock. Cerner's analytics platform requires partner certification. Providers pay twice for their own data. The case for data portability, and why the right model is working with exports you already have.

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