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April 2020

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"By using predictive analytics, you can focus more on the individualized member, really understand current and historic utilization of prescribed medications, and then from there, really tailor the clinical outreach and the clinical education that goes along with that to reach out to the members. It really helps to personalize it [medication adherence support] more."
- Lori Rund, Vice President of Government Programs, Blue Shield of Kansas City.

"Total costs for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients vary on the basis of which DRG [diagnosis-related groups] code is used. Assuming the highest projected numbers of infected patients needing inpatient stays, the costs range from $1.469 trillion in charges and $575 billion in estimated in-network amounts (for DRG 193) to $840 billion in charges and $329 billion in estimated in-network amounts (for DRG 195)."

Excerpted from: Care Analytics News, Analytics Technology Edition, Volume 13 Number 4, April 2020, "Total Charges for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach $1.4T."

GrantThornton: Ten Steps to Ethics-Based Governance of AI in Healthcare

1. Establish ethics-based governing principles.
2. Establish a Digital Ethics Steering Committee.
3. Convene diverse focus groups.
4. Subject algorithms to peer review.
5. Conduct AI model simulations.
6. Develop clinician-focused guidance for interpreting AI results.
7. Develop external change communication and training strategies.
8. Maintain a record log of tests.
9. Test algorithms in blind randomized controlled experiments.
10.Continuously monitor algorithmic decision processes.

Source: Grant Thornton LLP, March 24, 2020

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New Ways to Improve Hospital Flow with Predictive Analytics

Improving hospital-wide patient flow requires an appreciation of the hospital as an interconnected, interdependent system of care. Michael Thompson explores how Cedars-Sinai Medical Center used supervised machine learning to create predictive models for length of stay, emergency department (ED) arrivals, ED admissions, aggregate discharges, and total bed census and leveraged these models to reduce patient wait times and staff overtime and improve patient outcomes and patient and clinician satisfaction.

Big Data In The Time Of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Forbes, March 30, 2020

How America’s 5 Top Hospitals are Using Machine Learning Today
Emerj, March 24, 2020

IO Ten Steps to Ethics-Based Governance of AI in Healthcare
Grant Thornton LLP, March 24, 2020

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Why Transparency Matters
HealthTech, March 24, 2020

How is Machine Learning Used in Healthcare? Top 11 Applications
Codete blog, March 24, 20220

How AI Is Transforming Healthcare
Forbes, March 16, 2020

One-Third of Young Providers Overwhelmed by Patient Data, Analytics
Health IT Analytics, March 9, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Severe Disease in COVID-19 Patients
Health IT Analytics, March 31, 2020

The US Healthcare Fraud Analytics Market expected to reach $3,483 Mn in 2027
GlobeNewswire, March 18, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Identifies High-Risk COVID-19 Patients
Health IT Analytics, March 16, 2020

Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in coming weeks
STAT, March 16, 2020

Blue Health Intelligence and Decode Health Team Up to Validate PMs
Blue Health Intelligence News Release, March 10, 2020

“How did you get to this number?” Stakeholder needs for implementing PA
JAMIA, abstract only, March 6, 2020

Total Charges for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach $1.4T
FAQs on COVID-19 Impact On Healthcare Spending and Health Insurers
Jvion Launches COVID Community Vulnerability Map
Clarify Health Launches Two COVID-19 Analytics Applications for Healthcare Organizations
Echosens Engages Santa Barbara Actuaries to Demonstrate Cost-Effectiveness of FibroScan
Welltok Named Winner in 2020 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards
Infographic: The Power of Pharmaceuticals
IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Information Services Collaborate to Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
Catching Up With...Shantanu Nigam.

In the previous Care Interventions edition of Care Analytics News:

Patient Engagement: Devising and Implementing Strategies to Reduce Preventable Readmissions by Louis R. Hanover, MPH
Actionable SDoH Data Can Help Providers and Payers Improve Outcomes by Jeff Bennett and David Wenger
Another Take on Pharmacy Led Population Management Programs by Sarika Aggarwal
Thought Leaders' Corner: "What Role Do Nurses Have in Reducing Preventable Readmissions?"
Catching Up With...Carolyn Scott
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