Complimentary from the publishers of Predictive Modeling News                April, 2016
	“In general, predictive analytics allow providers to more proactively manage their performance under value-based payment programs. The best predictive analytics are timely and up to date, apply to the specific measures of the various VBP contracts, prescribe particular interventions that have a positive return on investment and continually improve, refining their algorithms.” - Ken Perez, Vice President of Healthcare Policy, Omnicell Inc.
	"Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid lines of business were compared to see if each had similar or different factors contributing to a member’s high ER utilization. Overall, between 2% and 2.5% of the health plan’s members were frequent flyers each year; however, close to 5.5% of Medicaid members become an ER frequent flyer each year."  Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2016, "Journal Review: Predicting Emergency Room Frequent Flyers."
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	Moving Out of Its Emergent Phase, Healthcare Data Analytics Becomes More Real Healthcare Informatics, March 29, 2016
	Predictive modeling improves care, cuts costs for kidney patients Health Data Management, March 16, 2016
	Predictive analytics still has a long way to go in preventing healthcare fraud FierceHealthPayer, March 8, 2016
	Consensus Statement on Electronic Health Predictive Analytics: A Guiding Framework to Address Challenges eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), March 7, 2016
	Predictive Analytics in Workers' Comp Genre, March 2016
	The Legal And Ethical Concerns That Arise From Using Complex Predictive Analytics In Health Care Health Affairs, abstract only, March 2016
	San Francisco-Based Start-Up Tiatros Joins IBM Watson Health Ecosystem, Will Pursue Behavioral Health Analytics Projects 5 Ways Predictive Analytics Make or Break a CRM System by Lang Smith Verisk Analytics Named a Best Employer by Forbes for 2016 RxAnte Completes SOC 2 Type II Security Audit Bivarus Raises $2M to Fuel Expansion Thought Leaders Corner: "How can predictive analytics best help providers getting involved with value-based payment programs?” Industry News with briefs regarding Catasys; Connance; ArroHealth; RevSpring; Big Cloud Analytics; VigiLanz; Rimidi; Quorum Health Resources. Predictably Quotable Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Predictive Modeling News, or find out more
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