Predictive Modeling Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Predictive Modeling News                March, 2014  
 
 

 
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  "The term ‘population health’ has arrived in a big way in the hospital systems in our area. Most are moving from stratification rules now to more robust regression predictive analytics. The most dominant focus is on preventing readmissions by identifying those at higher risk prior to discharge and making sure those identified are enrolled in transitional care programs. This work is still very rough yet, as these programs are still often in early development or pilot stages, but I’m seeing some pockets of success... In one local system, a nurse-run program took readmissions rates for patients with congestive heart failure from over 22% to just over 3% in three months.” Julie A. Meek DNS, President, Meek Consulting LLC; Clinical Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Nursing
 
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  IBM reports that Virginia health system Carilion Clinic has identified 8,500 patients at risk for developing heart failure in a pilot project ...the results were achieved through predictive modeling of data in Carilion Clinic’s electronic medical record, including “unstructured” data such as clinicians’ notes and discharge documents that are not often analyzed....The pilot applied content analytics and predictive modeling to identify at-risk patients with an 85% accuracy rate. The model identified an additional 3,500 patients who would have been missed with traditional methods.

Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 7 Number 3, February 2014, Industry News: "Carilion Clinic Spots At-Risk Patients with IBM Solution"

 
What's News
  How MassHealth Cut Medicaid Fraud With Predictive Analytics
BusinessIntelligence.com, February 25, 2014
 
     
  IBM And Epic Apply Predictive Analytics To Electronic Health Records
Forbes, February 19, 2014
 
     
  Predictive Analytics Role in Improved Outcomes Highlighted in New Issue Brief
Health Fidelity Press Release, February 18, 2014
 
     
  Data Analytics Takes on Medication Management
HealthLeaders Media, February 11, 2014
 
     
As risk-based contracting dominates healthcare, analytics will be your survival tool
Healthcare IT News, February 10, 2014
     
  Predictive analytics: increasing efficiency and financial vigor
Healthcare Finance News, February 6, 2014
 
     
  Predicting potentially avoidable hospitalizations
Medical Care, abstract only, February 2014
 
     
This Month in Predictive Modeling News
 
  • Identifying Near-Term Cost Risk in the Absence of Claims Data by Damon Shepherd
  • Volumes Probe Predictive Analytics Market Dimensions
  • Metric Calculates Medical Management Payoff
  • Thought Leaders’ Corner: "Is predictive analytics being used for specific population health initiatives?"
  • Industry News with briefs regarding PopHealthMan; MethodCare; IBM and Carilion Clinic; dashboardMD and Clinigence; Inovalon and NextGen Healthcare; and Verisk
  • Catching Up With….Thomas W. Miller PhD
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