Clinical Analytics

Study Uses Artificial Intelligence for Alzheimer’s Drug Development

by Jessica Kent

A team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will leverage artificial intelligence to find patterns in genetic, imaging, and clinical data from over 60,000...

Using Machine Learning to Calculate Unreported COVID-19 Cases

by Jessica Kent

To reduce and track the spread of COVID-19, researchers and provider organizations have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to improve their surveillance...

Machine Learning Can Streamline PTSD Diagnosis in Veterans

by Jessica Kent

Using machine learning, researchers were able to cut six of the 20 questions used to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while still maintaining accuracy in a veteran population, according...

Predictive Analytics Detects Breast Cancer Spread with 90% Accuracy

by Jessica Kent

A predictive analytics method was able to detect with 90 percent accuracy which stage 0 breast cancers are likely to spread and recur, according to a study published in the American Journal of...

3 Ways Healthcare is Using Predictive Analytics to Combat COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, predictive analytics tools have played an integral part in healthcare organizations’ response to and defense against the virus. For more coronavirus updates,...

Machine Learning Could Improve Cardiovascular Disease Screening

by Jessica Kent

A machine learning model was able to detect different clusters of gut bacteria that could potentially identify individuals with existing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published in...

How Big Data Analytics Models Can Impact Healthcare Decision-Making

by Jessica Kent

In healthcare, providers and lawmakers are faced with the task of making the best possible decisions for patients and the industry as a whole. From choosing the best treatments, to determining the most...

Harnessing Big Data to Enhance Population Health Management

by Jessica Kent

As the industry continues its quest to provide holistic, comprehensive, and cost-effective care to patients, the term population health management has emerged as a crucial task for organizations to...

Machine Learning Tool Knows when to Defer to Human Clinicians

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a machine learning tool that can adapt when and how often it defers to human experts based on...

3 Ways Predictive Analytics is Advancing the Healthcare Industry

by Jessica Kent

As the healthcare industry has increasingly aimed to deliver proactive, quality care, predictive analytics models have emerged as viable tools for improving outcomes and cutting costs. From mapping...

Genome Analytics Tool Could Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

A team from St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital have created a genome analytics tool to detect alterations that drive tumor formations, which could help advance cancer precision...

Machine Learning Tools Detect New Brain Cancer Cell Types

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Vanderbilt University leveraged unsupervised and automated machine learning techniques to analyze millions of cancer cells and identify new cancer cell types in brain tumors. The...

Over 50% of Leaders Underwhelmed by Population Health Management Tech

by Jessica Kent

Fifty-six percent of healthcare leaders say their current population health management solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a survey from Persivia and commissioned by Sage Growth...

Predictive Analytics Models Determine Diabetes Life Expectancy

by Jessica Kent

Building predictive models with patient data – such as history of comorbidities and medications – can determine the five- to ten-year life expectancy of older people with diabetes and help...

Big Data Analytics Dashboard Shows Greatest Risk Factors for COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) has developed a big data analytics dashboard to accurately identify communities at high risk for COVID-19 infection. For more coronavirus updates,...

Testing System Leverages Machine Learning to Predict Sepsis Outcomes

by Jessica Kent

Using machine learning algorithms, an extremely sensitive method can analyze biomarkers to predict sepsis outcomes with nearly 100 percent accuracy, according to a study published in Nature...

Artificial Intelligence Tool Identifies COVID-19 in CT Scans

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence tool can quickly detect COVID-19 based on CT scans of the chest and patients’ clinical data, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. For more coronavirus...

Could COVID-19 Help Refine AI, Data Analytics in Healthcare?

by Jessica Kent

In the months since COVID-19 has evolved from a blip on the world’s radar to a full-blown global health crisis, the virus has managed to shine a glaring light on some of healthcare’s most foundational cracks.  Gaps in...

Predictive Analytics Identifies Patients at Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

by Jessica Kent

A predictive analytics model was able to accurately identify patients at higher than normal risk for pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...