Analytics Strategies

Google Gives $8.5M to Fund COVID-19 Data Analytics, AI Projects

by Jessica Kent

Google.org is donating more than $8.5 million to 31 universities, nonprofits, and other academic institutions that are using artificial intelligence and data analytics to combat COVID-19. For more...

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...

Consortium Leverages EHRs, Data Analytics for COVID-19 Research

by Jessica Kent

A consortium of research scientists has created a common data analytics model and shared framework that will aim to accelerate COVID-19 research by combining information from disparate EHRs...

Calculator Uses Predictive Analytics to Forecast Stroke Risk

by Jessica Kent

A predictive analytics tool can accurately forecast patients’ risk of ischemic stroke based on the severity of their metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions that includes high blood...

Precision Medicine Research Project Focuses on Rare Cancers

by Jessica Kent

TargetCancer Foundation (TCF) has announced the Target Rare Cancer Knowledge (TRACK) study, an initiative that leverages genomic analysis and precision medicine to provide patients and providers with...

Predictive Models to Shed Light on How Mucus Impacts Health

by Jessica Kent

A team from the University of Virginia (UVA) has received a five-year, $3.2 million NIH grant to build predictive models that analyze interactions between mucus and bacteria. The research will focus...

Genome Mapping Method Could Accelerate Precision Medicine for Lupus

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) leveraged a new genome mapping approach to pinpoint two new possible therapeutic targets for lupus, while also accurately identifying...

Data-Driven Partnership to Eliminate Cancer with Computational Models

by Jessica Kent

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and two institutions at the University of Texas at Austin – the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and the Texas Advanced...

New Imaging Analytics Method May Boost Schizophrenia Treatment

by Jessica Kent

An innovative imaging analytics method helped researchers categorize subgroups of schizophrenia patients using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, according to a study published in...

Machine Learning Powers COVID-19 Risk Assessment Dashboard

by Jessica Kent

A team from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science is leveraging machine learning technology to build a COVID-19 knowledge base and risk assessment...

WHO Leverages Amazon Data Analytics Tools for COVID-19 Response

by Jessica Kent

The World Health Organization (WHO) is leveraging data analytics and cloud technologies from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate global efforts to track, contain, and understand COVID-19. For more...

Machine Learning Approach Could Accelerate COVID-19 Drug Discovery

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Penn State College of Engineering are aiming to speed COVID-19 drug discovery with quantum machine learning, a field that combines machine learning and quantum physics. For more...

How Will Big Data Analytics Factor into the Next Phase of COVID-19?

by Jessica Kent

As COVID-19 has made its way across the US and around the world, healthcare stakeholders from all areas of the industry have prioritized containing the outbreak. Leaders at all levels have utilized...

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...

Microsoft Gives $20M to Fight COVID-19 with Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

Microsoft is dedicating $20 million to advance the use of artificial intelligence and data science in COVID-19 research, with a particular focus on diagnostics, hospital resources, and other critical...

Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Big Data Analytics Issue

by Jessica Kent

The rapid, global spread of COVID-19 has brought advanced big data analytics tools front and center, with entities from all sectors of the healthcare industry seeking to monitor and reduce the impact...

Stanford Launches Data-Driven Model Evaluating COVID-19 Interventions

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Stanford University have launched an interactive, data-driven model that evaluates possible outcomes of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19, including social distancing and...

Google Makes COVID-19 Datasets Freely Available to Researchers

by Jessica Kent

Google Cloud is offering researchers free access to critical coronavirus information through its COVID-19 Public Dataset Program, which will help accelerate analytics solutions during the global...

Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative Targets COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

A new research consortium jointly managed by UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is aiming to build artificial intelligence techniques that will help combat...

Private Sector Coalition to Combat COVID-19 with Real-Time Data

by Jessica Kent

Private sector organizations have partnered to form the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a collaborative effort that aims to provide real-time data analytics to help those on the front lines of the...