Clinical Analytics

NIH Renews Big Data Study on Adolescent Cognitive Development

by Jessica Kent

NIH is renewing its commitment to the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study for an additional seven years, allowing researchers to expand big data resources on brain development and child...

53% of Execs Say Healthcare Leads Artificial Intelligence Adoption

by Jessica Kent

Fifty-three percent of healthcare executives say that the healthcare industry is ahead of most other industries in artificial intelligence adoption, according to a survey from KPMG. However, 37...

Vanderbilt Launches New Clinical Informatics, Data Center

by Jessica Kent

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has launched the new Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), which will promote and support collaborations in clinical informatics across the...

Data Mining Techniques Could Improve Cancer Gene Therapies

by Jessica Kent

A team of scientists from Purdue University and other research institutions around the world leveraged data mining techniques to better understand trends in the gene therapy field in respect to...

Putting the Pieces Together for a Successful Predictive Analytics Strategy

by Jessica Kent

If the evolution of the healthcare industry were a jigsaw puzzle, then predictive analytics would be the last pieces put into place.  For years, experts have talked about the potential for artificial intelligence, machine learning,...

New Method Determines Accuracy of Predictive Risk Models

by Jessica Kent

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a method that determines the accuracy of predictive risk models, helping clinicians to choose better treatments for their...

Genomic Analyses Predict Therapy Response in Lung Cancer Patients

by Jessica Kent

An integrated genomic approach could help providers predict which patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer will respond to therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are...

Mayo Clinic Launches Data Analytics Platform for Drug Development

by Jessica Kent

Mayo Clinic has announced the Clinical Data Analytics Platform as the first venture under the Mayo Clinic Platform, an initiative to use insights and knowledge extracted from data to improve healthcare...

Gaps in Whole Genome Sequencing Tests Could Hinder Disease Diagnosis

by Jessica Kent

A review of clinical tests from three major US laboratories showed that whole genome sequencing tests routinely fail to adequately analyze more than a quarter of genes, which may prevent providers from...

Providing Holistic Preventive Health with Advanced Primary Care

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Primary care has the potential to transform the healthcare industry by improving patient outcomes and reducing overall spend on healthcare services. Study after study shows that value-based care, population health management, chronic...

Machine Learning System Accurately Identifies Medication Errors

by Jessica Kent

An alert system driven by machine learning could identify medication errors that traditional clinical decision support systems might otherwise miss, according to a study published in the Joint...

Top 5 Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging

by Jennifer Bresnick

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have captivate the healthcare industry as these innovative analytics strategies become more accurate and applicable to a variety of tasks. AI is...

Using Big Data Analytics for Patient Safety, Hospital Acquired Conditions

by Jennifer Bresnick

Prediction and prevention are the two main goals for patient safety experts seeking to avoid adverse events and reduce the prevalence of hospital acquired conditions (HACs).   While workflow strategies, staff training, and human...

Da Vinci Project Brings HL7 FHIR to Payers for Big Data Analytics

by Jennifer Bresnick

In just a few short years, HL7 FHIR has exploded in popularity to enable unprecedented connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem.    The internet-based data standard has started to hit...

What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine?

by Jennifer Bresnick

Since the beginning of recorded history, healthcare practitioners have striven to make their actions more effective for their patients by experimenting with different treatments, observing and sharing their results, and improving upon the...

Artificial Intelligence to Make More Health Jobs Than it Eliminates

by Jennifer Bresnick

Some healthcare professionals might view artificial intelligence as a job-killer, but advanced machine learning may actually create more employment opportunities in the industry than it eliminates,...

Understanding the Basics of Clinical Decision Support Systems

by Jennifer Bresnick

Clinical decision support systems are quickly becoming essential tools for healthcare providers as the volume of available data increases alongside their responsibility to deliver value-based care. Reducing clinical variation and...

Using Visual Analytics, Big Data Dashboards for Healthcare Insights

by Jennifer Bresnick

The need to make sense of big data is quickly becoming an imperative in the healthcare industry, demanding a degree of time, skill, attention, and resources that many providers simply do not have to spare.  While changing payment...

Which Healthcare Data is Important for Population Health Management?

by Jennifer Bresnick

From claims to electronic health records to input from the Internet of Things, healthcare organizations have a whole lot of data on their hands. Big data has become one of the industry’s most...

Understanding the Many V’s of Healthcare Big Data Analytics

by Jennifer Bresnick

Extracting actionable insights from big data analytics – and perhaps especially healthcare big data analytics – is one of the most complex challenges that organizations can face in the...