Predictive Modeling Bulletin             |           April 4, 2011             |           Volume Three Issue Four
Complimentary from the publishers of Predictive Modeling News      www.PredictiveModelingNews.com

"What all of this indicates is that the best minds in the health IT community should focus on figuring out how to transcend the current limitations of the technology for supporting population health management. When we can do that, we won't need predictive modeling programs." Ken Terry, Editor, FierceHealthIT

Predictive Modeling Suffers Setbacks
FierceHealthcare, March 31, 2011

Health Care Network Offers $3M for Illness-Prediction Algorithm
Computerworld, March 30, 2011

Anti-Fraud Effort Hit Snags, Sebelius Says
Modern Healthcare, March 30, 2011

What Adjustments in Predictive Analytics Approaches Must Small Organizations Make?
Healthsprocket, March 22, 2011

Predictive Modeling is Good, but Care Coordination Would be Better
FierceHealthIT, March 19, 2011 

In the April 2011 issue of Predictive Modeling News, you'll find articles including:

• HHS Wants to Pay State Medicaid Fraud Units to Conduct Their Own Data Mining
• New MedRisk PM Division Aims to Leverage Comp Claims Data
• CVS Caremark Research Finds Correlation Between Amount of Patient Co-Pay and Prescription Abandonment
• Hit or Miss? Using Risk Scores to Decide by Ksenia Draaghtel ASA, Associate Actuary, Milliman
• Thought Leader’s Corner “What should an organization developing an ACO be doing to successfully conduct applicable predictive analytics initiatives? And what’s the most important such initiative for the organization to undertake in its first year of operation?”
• Industry News with briefs regarding DiagnosisOne, PDI, Qforma, Elsevier/MEDai, National Predictive Modeling Summit, and DataGen
• Catching Up With…. Chris Scheib

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