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  "In the last six years, we have leveraged predictive analytics to model the behavior of health plans. We apply what we’ve learned from the models to predict, with regular accuracy, whether a payer will dispute, deny or pay a claim and in what timeframe."
- Dawn Castro, vice president of Revenue Cycle, Conifer Health Solutions.
 

 
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  A recent Sage Growth Partners Analytics survey revealed that 85% of healthcare organizations saw data analytics priorities as fundamental to achieving broader strategic objectives. Furthermore, more than half of respondents stated that poor data quality has serious consequences and can lead to ineffective or slow decision making (53%) and the inability to identify gaps in care (50%).

Source: Care Analytics News, Volume 14 Number 21, November 2021 First Edition, "New Study Identifies Most Common Healthcare Data Obstacles."
 
 
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FDA: 10 Guiding Principles for Developing Good Machine Learning Practice

1. Multi-Disciplinary Expertise Is Leveraged Throughout the Total Product Life Cycle.
2. Good Software Engineering and Security Practices Are Implemented.
3. Clinical Study Participants and Data Sets Are Representative of the Intended Patient Population.
4. Training Data Sets Are Independent of Test Sets.
5. Selected Reference Datasets Are Based Upon Best Available Methods.
6. Model Design Is Tailored to the Available Data and Reflects the Intended Use of the Device.
7. Focus Is Placed on the Performance of the Human-AI Team.
8. Testing Demonstrates Device Performance during Clinically Relevant Conditions.
9. Users Are Provided Clear, Essential Information.
10. Deployed Models Are Monitored for Performance and Re-training Risks are Managed

Note: From an article entitled, "Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development: Guiding Principles." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have jointly identified 10 guiding principles that can inform the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP).

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, October 27, 2021

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As healthcare participants focus on digital transformation efforts, they will have to address data governance, impact of various factors on the workforce, more ‘person-enabled’ health, use of predictive analytics. This should not be viewed as a one-time project; rather, as a strategy.

Insights
   
  How Data Can Improve Healthcare For A Growing Senior Population
Forbes, November 16, 2021
 
     
  5 health systems that recently launched AI programs
Becker's Hospital Review, November 16, 2021
 
     
  The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021
Healthcare IT News, November 16, 2021
 
     
  New Federal Policies Seek Data for Public Health, Emphasize Health IT Safety
The PEW Charitable Trusts, November 15, 2021
 
     
  Dignity Health integrates asthma and COPD data, sees 54% drop in ER visits
Healthcare IT News, November 12, 2021
 
     
  Using Machine Learning To Make Better Medical Decisions
Health IT Analytics, November 12, 2021
 
     
  Researchers find 13 device vulnerabilities capable of taking hospitals offline
Becker's Hospital Review, November 9, 2021
 
     
  Cleveland Clinic develops AI tool to forecast effectiveness of cancer treatments
Becker's Hospital Review, November 8, 2021
 
     
  New UChicago initiative aims to improve health algorithms for underrepresented
University of Chicago News Release, November 3, 2021
 
     
  The Emerging Role of Data Science in the Health Plan Marketplace
HealthLeaders, November 1, 2021
 
     
What's News
  Intermountain Healthcare Sets Standards for Using AI to Identify Disparities
Intermountain Healthcare News Release, November 16, 2021
 
     
  AI in the intensive care unit: UF researchers developing novel solutions
Newswise, November 10, 2021
 
     
  The Promise for Reducing Cost with Predictive Model: Analysis on Readmissions
Journal of Healthcare Engineering, November 2, 2021
 
     
  Data Analytics to Help Identify Clinical Approaches to Long COVID
Health IT Analytics, November 2, 2021
 
     
This Month in Care Analytics News
  • Do Unvaccinated Employees Incur Higher Healthcare Costs, and if so, How Much More? By Jill Van Den Bos and Shelley Moss, Milliman
  • Industry News: Precision of Deidentified Healthcare Data Exchange Improved with LexisNexis Patient Centric Token

In the first November edition of Care Analytics News:

  • NIH Study Suggests People with Rare Diseases Face Significantly Higher Health Care Costs
  • New Study Identifies Most Common Healthcare Data Obstacles
  • Choice of Measurement Approach for Area-Level Social Determinants of Health and Risk Prediction Model Performance
  • Industry News: Blue Health Intelligence's Benchmarking Solutions Offer Tailored and Comprehensive Views of Healthcare Performance
  • Industry News: Socially Determined Launches Digital Landscape Risk Metric, Providing Insights into Increasingly Influential Social Determinant of Health

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