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Healthcare and Data Incentives

January 23, 2012 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the outsourcing of data analysis and discovery through a site called Kaggle. Today, I’d like to go deeper. A look at the site reveals a number of fascinating data contests, including one that offers $3 million (USD) for identifying patients who will be admitted to a hospital within the next year, using... [read more]

Disease Management Programs - A Time to Revisit

December 2, 2011 by Jason Burke
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"If a healthcare provider is compensated based upon patient outcomes and has a large comprehensive dataset for analysis at its disposal, would the provider prefer to use analysis of the data to development treatment best practices for various patient segments or would the provider prefer to leave the treatment best practices to the decision of the healthcare professional and the influences of sales and marketing?" [read more]

Diagnosing Disease Using Smartphone Apps and Data Visualization

September 20, 2011 by Brett Stupakevich
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"While many companies are using mobile analytics to measure their mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, scientists are developing healthcare-related smartphone apps that could actually save lives. The new apps are designed to help doctors by integrating with medical devices, enabling the smartphone to become the tool for data handling, analytics, visualization and communication." [read more]

Healthcare's Only Hope: Surveillance

September 20, 2011 by Stephen Baker
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"I know this sounds invasive, even demeaning. The patterns of our lives--when we go to bed, how often we walk into the kitchen, even how we distribute our weight as we wash the dishes--will be subject to statistical analysis." [read more]

Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

September 20, 2011 by James Taylor
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"The initial use of analytics in healthcare was disease management across whole populations. This has been used to drive a predictive risk of cost for each member in the plan – how probable is it that this person will be high risk, high cost. But what are your risk drivers and what can we DO about this? What decisions can we make?" [read more]

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Data Tracking for Asthma Sufferers?

May 10, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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By capturing data on inhaler usage, a Wisconsin doctor proposes that asthma sufferers can learn more about what triggers an attack and the medical community can learn more about this chronic condition. However, the use of such a device has privacy implications that need serious consideration. [read more]

Digital Safety Radar

December 30, 2009 by Jason Burke
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Dave Handelsman had a really great article on Applied Clinical Trials this month related to improving safety and longer-term healthcare through the application of advanced analytics to social media. When many people think of using analytics on social media to improve healthcare, they are usually thinking of the possibility of seeing or... [read more]

IBM: Numerati paradise

November 17, 2009 by Stephen Baker
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It's been about three weeks that I've been "covering" IBM for BusinessWeek. I haven't done any articles yet, but I get a stream of news items that have to be mouthwatering for the Numerati. The fact is, IBM has been pouring loads of research and investment into data analysis. It's key to the company's strategy. As I researched the... [read more]

Using decision management for meaningful EMR

July 20, 2009 by James Taylor
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Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Using decision management for meaningful EMR.I saw this comment last week in The US stimulus program Taking medical records online – McKinsey Quarterly – Health Care – Strategy & Analysis and it struck a chord with me: health care providers to upgrade their IT systems... [read more]

BI in Health Care—and Everywhere Else

June 22, 2009 by Jill Dyché
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In which Jill observes that the maxim, “Physician, heal thyself” can have several meanings. Several years ago, Baseline Consulting received a blind Request for Proposal from an HMO. The RFP was for help building a BI strategy. Right up our alley. Trouble was we didn’t have many references in the healthcare sector. At that time our... [read more]

PAW: High-Performance Scoring of Healthcare Data

February 18, 2009 by James Taylor
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Live from Predictive Analytics WorldNatasha Balac from UC San Diego and Michael Zeller from Zementis (their product was blogged here and their support for the amazon.com compute cloud was discussed here) presented on the use of Medicare and Medicaid data to detect and prevent fraud. The high computing center at UC San Diego (San Diego... [read more]

Analytics In A Global Recession: Fixed Price Operational Dashboard

November 25, 2008 by Alberto Roldan
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As the world economy moves towards a potential global recession companies are asking about how could they could optimized their investments in business intelligence, BPM, data mining, and analytics. The answer is simple: go to a fixed price operational dashboard model that requires vendors and service providers to:1. Deliver within 90... [read more]

The Commoditization of Analytics

November 20, 2008 by Alberto Roldan
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  The Commoditization of Analytics[1]   The delivery of profit-boosting initiatives in a downturn economy has never been greater for Finance and Information Technology executives.  The pressure on CFO and CIO to deliver cost-efficient and profit enhancing technologies is increasing daily.  Executives must be able to... [read more]