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.   Download Cynthia Burghard's Bio in pdf format.

Research Authored by Cynthia Burghard

Perspective: Physician Relationship Management Builds Loyalty and Community Cynthia Burghard Jun 2013 - Doc # HI241709    Perspective This IDC Health Insights Perspective will enlighten healthcare executives with a framework on which to build physician loyalty and create a sense of community through the use of social media, interactive learning and collaboration, training... purchase document

Business Strategy: Accountable Care Maturity Model Cynthia Burghard May 2013 - Doc # HI240916    Business Strategy This IDC Health Insights report discusses IDC Health Insights' Accountable Care Maturity Model. The relative immaturity of accountable care brings many challenges to the healthcare industry. IDC Health Insights' Accountable Care Maturity Mo... purchase document

Perspective: Transformation Services Before Technology Deployment in Accountable Care Cynthia Burghard Apr 2013 - Doc # HI240490    Perspective This IDC Health Insights Perspective discusses the importance of healthcare providers fully understanding the impact on their practice of engaging in accountable care before they invest in technology. This Perspective outlines the required ... purchase document

Pivot Tables: IDC Health Insights' U.S. Healthcare Solutions Market Share and Forecast Guides, 2013 Scott Tiazkun,  Lynne A. Dunbrack,  Judy Hanover,  Cynthia Burghard,  Sven Lohse Mar 2013 - Doc # HI239928    Pivot Table This IDC Health Insights Pivot Table presents solution-specific vendor revenue for the top U.S. healthcare vendors for 2011 and market forecasts for the individual solutions through 2016.Solutions covered include electronic medical records ... purchase document

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... purchase document

Business Strategy: Analytics Leads Accountable Care Investment Priority Cynthia Burghard Mar 2013 - Doc # HI239735    Business Strategy This IDC Health Insights report provides healthcare executives a series of investment benchmarks for accountable care technology investments. Analytics is the number 1 investment priority for accountable care for both infrastructure and bus... purchase document

U.S. Accountable Care 2013 Top 10 Predictions: Accountable Care IT Strategies, a Period of Maturity Ahead Cynthia Burghard Dec 2012 - Doc # HI238485    Top 10 Predictions This IDC Health Insights report presents our accountable care predictions for 2013. 2013 will be a year of maturation for accountable care; it will continue to be early stage, but more information will become available on the outcomes of ea... purchase document

U.S. Connected Health IT 2013 Top 10 Predictions: The Consumer Takes Center Stage Lynne A. Dunbrack,  Cynthia Burghard,  Judy Hanover Dec 2012 - Doc # HI238619    Top 10 Predictions This IDC Health Insights report discusses our predictions for the U.S. connected health IT market in 2013. It attempts to alleviate uncertainty by giving payers and providers a guide to focus on the key technologies."The consumer has firmly... purchase document

Pivot Table: U.S. Healthcare Solutions Market Share Guide, Methodology, and Taxonomy, 2011 Scott Tiazkun,  Lynne A. Dunbrack,  Judy Hanover,  Cynthia Burghard,  Sven Lohse Nov 2012 - Doc # HI237758    Pivot Table This IDC Health Insights Pivot Table presents solution-specific vendor revenue for the top U.S. healthcare vendors for 2011. Solutions covered include electronic medical records (EMRs)/electronic health records (EHRs), health information ex... purchase document

Business Strategy: Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare Is an Emerging Market Cynthia Burghard Oct 2012 - Doc # HI237135    Business Strategy This IDC Health Insights report provides insight for healthcare executives into the benefits, challenges, and use cases of Big Data and analytics in healthcare. Big Data and analytics investment and deployment in healthcare is in a very ear... purchase document

Business Strategy: What Approaches to Accountable Care Analytics Will Be Best for Your Organization? Cynthia Burghard Sep 2012 - Doc # HI236896    Business Strategy This IDC Health Insights report presents the current requirements and challenges of meeting the analytic needs of accountable care. The early-stage implementations of accountable care have only just begun to understand the information requi... purchase document

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