Trejo Consulting is now a part of nationally respected healthcare consulting firm, Stroudwater Associates.  

Learn more about our new colleagues and the exciting work we are doing at www.stroudwater.com.

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Hospital rankings vs. public interest.  How do they relate, and how do these connections impact U.S. hospitals?

Trejo Consulting looks at who the best U.S. hospitals are to discover relationships between published hospital rankings and public interest in these institutions—uncovering questions about the importance of public interest and how this data can be used to influence a hospitals growth strategy.  Visit the news section of the Trejo Consulting homepage, or click here to download the infographic file.

Another example of how visualization can help us better understand complex data (http://invent.ge/tjTBHS).  

The work of talented young researchers such as Erez Lieberman Aiden, showing us that a micro-system as densely complex as the physical arrangement of the human genome can be mapped, is inspiring for the prospect of mapping our complex health care system.  

Contact us to learn more about our work on the topic of health care mapping.

For those who struggle in the U.S., and around the world to tackle increasingly complex healthcare challenges for growing populations the concept of a comprehensive health care map is a far off and vague concept at best.  

Complex data is often difficult to comprehend, and more difficult to meaningfully arrange.  Healthcare data is complex, difficult to obtain, vast in scale (and at some levels totally unique), multi-source, and very dynamic.  

We human’s can easily understand complex data when represented visually, and projects leveraging the power of data visualization have been growing in popularity.  Larger scale projects are being tackled, and groups at MIT and Harvard have teamed up to tackle a particularly large one—visualizing global economic data.  The Atlas of Economic Complexity weaves together singular threads of global economic information in to a picture of prosperity.  The project helps us see what global prosperity looks like (and more importantly where there is a lack of it) around the world.

What does this triumph of economic data visualization mean for healthcare?  Well, the simple question is, “Why don’t we have a U.S. health care map?”  

Trejo Consulting is spending a lot of time thinking differently about how we can work together and innovate to solve healthcare challenges.  We are not interested in why we don’t have a U.S. healthcare map, we are only interested in how we can start developing one.  A visual healthcare landscape where data related to access, cost, quality, health reform, and other important healthcare issues can be visualized and more easily understood would benefit all of us.  

We are interested in solving healthcare challenges, and look forward to hearing from you about how we can work together.

A FREE electronic health record, @PracticeFusion, represents the largest meaningful use community in the U.S. (http://bit.ly/p78BYE)

A hospital’s growth prospects and competitive strategy is incomplete without fully understanding local primary care resources.

Bob Lutz, former Vice Chairman of General Motors Company discusses product development, business strategy, and offers other insights in an interesting interview that resonates deeply across many modern business sector problems.

Trejo Consulting draws insights from inside and outside of our practice scope in an effort to better serve customers.  Contact us to learn more.

Roger Kirk, COO of Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida shares his insights on hospital management, handling market competition, healthcare reform, and other topics in the Trejo Consulting 10 Questions.

Commercial insurers are joining the federal government in incentivizing quality care (http://on.wsj.com/k725xu). We can help you improve quality and outcomes.

Contact us to learn more.

We’ve shared a case study of our experience in reducing hospital cost and improving outcomes through utilization improvements.  Read more on our website.

We’d like to hear more about your experience with utilization improvements in your healthcare organization.  Please post here, or contact us.