Analyst Profile
Cynthia Burghard
Research Director, Accountable Care Organizations
Cynthia Burghard is a Research Director with IDC Health Insights where she is responsible for research on Accountable Care Organizations. Her passion is to provide the intelligence needed to manage the business and quality of healthcare. She has pioneered the use of healthcare information including building healthcare data warehouses at both the local and national level, developing and implementing analytics for employers, health insurance management, physicians, hospitals and government agencies.
As a highly sought-after industry analyst, Ms. Burghard is focused on qualitative and quantitative research on the involvement of consumers in healthcare decisions, best practices models for technology in care management and business intelligence, software vendor evaluation and future scenarios regarding the implications of technology in the healthcare industry. She has delivered the results of her research to all levels of management and healthcare sectors through the publication of over 100 research reports, articles and interviews, thought leadership papers and web seminars, presentations at national, regional and local venues, corporate marketing and sales training and through strategic consulting engagements.
As a Sr. Vice President for ikaSystems, a premier provider of enterprise-level cloud computing technologies for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid health plans, Ms. Burghard's work resulted in award-winning client case studies. At Gartner, she was responsible for directing research for the healthcare payer market for business intelligence applications and care management. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado.
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IDC Maturity Model: Big Data and Analytics — A Guide to Unlocking Information Assets
Dan Vesset,
Michael Versace,
Greg Girard,
Adelaide O'Brien,
Cynthia Burghard,
Jill Feblowitz,
Debra Osswald,
Simon Ellis
Mar 2013 - Doc # 239771 Industry Development and Models
This IDC study describes IDC's Big Data and Analytics (BDA) Maturity Model framework that identifies the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for companies to effectively develop BDA competency. As evidence of the compe...
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