Analytics Strategies

Machine Learning Tool Uses Real-Time Data to Monitor Flu Trends

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have developed a portable surveillance tool that leverages machine learning and real-time data to monitor flu-like illnesses and...

Is Artificial Intelligence Mature Enough to Combat COVID-19?

by Jessica Kent

Before the world was even conscious of the threat posed by COVID-19, artificial intelligence had detected the beginnings of the outbreak. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated...

One-Third of Young Providers Overwhelmed by Patient Data, Analytics

by Jessica Kent

Thirty-five percent of younger healthcare professionals are overwhelmed by digital patient data or are unsure about how to use patient data and analytics to inform care, according to a global survey...

Cancer Center Joins CancerLinQ Big Data Analytics Platform

by Jessica Kent

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center of Buffalo, New York has signed an agreement to use the CancerLinQ platform, an oncology data repository that provides cancer organizations with actionable big...

New Algorithm Tracks Sepsis Incidence Among Pediatric Patients

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new algorithm that can track the epidemiology of sepsis among pediatric patients, allowing for more accurate data...

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...

HHS Using Real-Time Data to Help Combat the Opioid Crisis

by Jessica Kent

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an agreement with Millennium Health, an accredited specialty laboratory, to combat the opioid crisis using near real-time drug testing...

Google’s Verily Partners with Emory Healthcare to Drive Efficiency

by Jessica Kent

Emory Healthcare and Verily, a healthcare entity owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, are collaborating to develop new solutions that will help improve cost-effectiveness, operational...

Data Mining Tool Could Help Train Machine Learning Models

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Purdue University have created a new framework for mining data to train machine learning models used in drug development. Using machine learning for drug development requires...

New Project Puts an Actuarial Eye on Big Data, Healthcare Costs

by Jessica Kent

Healthcare costs in the US are on the rise, with the industry spending billions each year to combat chronic disease, manage administrative tasks, and advance medical treatments. Although organizations...

NIH Data Science Plan Aims to Boost Data Analytics, Access

by Jessica Kent

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released the final draft of its Strategic Plan for Data Science, which seeks to enhance biomedical research by boosting healthcare data analytics...

How the Healthcare “Value Chain” Leads to Big Data Analytics Success

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations may come in many different sizes, shapes, and specialties, but all providers working in the industry today have one major trait in common: their big data is getting bigger by...

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...

Turning Healthcare Big Data into Actionable Clinical Intelligence

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations on the hunt for lower costs, better outcomes, and value-based care bonuses have invested heavily in hoarding as much big data as they can get their hands on.  From customer service call logs and clinical...

Using Risk Scores, Stratification for Population Health Management

by Jennifer Bresnick

Population health management requires providers to maintain a delicate balance between taking a long view of generalized patient trends and focusing personal attention on the individual and the distinctive circumstances that will influence...

What Is the Role of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare?

by Jennifer Bresnick

For many providers, the healthcare landscape is looking more and more like a shifting quagmire of regulatory pitfalls, financial quicksand, and unpredictable eruptions of acrimony from overwhelmed clinicians on the edge of revolt. The...

How to Choose the Right Healthcare Big Data Analytics Tools

by Jennifer Bresnick

In just a few short years, the idea of “big data analytics” has transitioned from a mysterious new buzzword to an essential competency for healthcare organizations large and small.  Analytics has moved from a lofty...