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# AUTHOR: Gordon MacMaster

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## [The Unintended Bias of Data Driven Decisions](https://blog.rsrit.com/the-unintended-bias-of-data-driven-decisions)

[October 01, 2018](https://blog.rsrit.com/the-unintended-bias-of-data-driven-decisions) [Gordon MacMaster](https://blog.rsrit.com/author/gordon-macmaster) [Health Insurance](https://blog.rsrit.com/tag/health-insurance)

Are data driven decisions influenced by Confirmation Bias?

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## [How precision medicine is making a difference in hospitals](https://blog.rsrit.com/how-precision-medicine-is-making-a-difference-in-hospitals)

[September 21, 2018](https://blog.rsrit.com/how-precision-medicine-is-making-a-difference-in-hospitals) [Gordon MacMaster](https://blog.rsrit.com/author/gordon-macmaster) [Healthcare](https://blog.rsrit.com/tag/healthcare)

According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, precision medicine is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.” For the rest of us, it is the future where we’re cured of serious diseases not through the power of a specific treatment, but rather through the power of deep\[…\]

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## [Leveraging Data Warehouses to Bring Value to Health Systems](https://blog.rsrit.com/leveraging-data-warehouses-to-bring-value-to-health-systems)

[August 24, 2018](https://blog.rsrit.com/leveraging-data-warehouses-to-bring-value-to-health-systems) [Gordon MacMaster](https://blog.rsrit.com/author/gordon-macmaster) [Healthcare](https://blog.rsrit.com/tag/healthcare)

[Healthcare](http://www.rsrit.com/healthcare/)remains one of the marketplaces where data warehouses are simultaneously more complex and more rewarding to implement and leverage than in other industries.

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## [Performance Measurement: Control or Improvement?](https://blog.rsrit.com/performance-measurement-control-or-improvement)

[July 30, 2018](https://blog.rsrit.com/performance-measurement-control-or-improvement) [Gordon MacMaster](https://blog.rsrit.com/author/gordon-macmaster) [Essential for Success](https://blog.rsrit.com/tag/essential-for-success)

When I was a young lad my grandfather would tell me stories about working in the coal mine. The stories were often quite funny and full of more characters than a Disney movie. A lot of the stories touched on the never ending struggle between management and workers. During this time there were a lot of experiments focused on performance measurement. How can we get the miners to dig for more coal?

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## [Healthcare Consumerism: When the Patient Is Shopping](https://blog.rsrit.com/healthcare-consumerism-when-the-patient-is-shopping)

[July 17, 2018](https://blog.rsrit.com/healthcare-consumerism-when-the-patient-is-shopping) [Gordon MacMaster](https://blog.rsrit.com/author/gordon-macmaster) [Healthcare](https://blog.rsrit.com/tag/healthcare)

One increasingly-popular model for slowing the growth in [healthcare](http://www.rsrit.com/healthcare/) spending and addressing affordability concerns for consumers is “healthcare consumerism,” where patients are encouraged and empowered to shop for products and services more widely than they are today. This creates additional market forces beyond the traditional insurer/provider negotiation model, allowing providers to compete on\[…\]

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