There’s never been a more critical time in the history of U.S. healthcare for providers to turn to clinical analytics to help them survive and thrive amidst healthcare reform. Clinical analytics can enable health systems with the following improvements as they shift from fee-for-service reimbursements to value-based purchasing: pinpoint waste reduction opportunities, identify specific margin improvement opportunities, systematically identify performance improvement opportunities, automate the tracking and reporting of quality measures, and understand the cost structure at a granular level. Clinical analytics can also help ACOs unlock the data from their EMR investment and provide real-time data for providers and payers to work together to provide value-based insurance design.