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  "Predictive modeling certainly can be used to identify patients/members who would be likely candidates for wellness and other disease management programs. This is done through a two-step process of analyzing health risk assessments, preferably completed by the patients themselves, in conjunction with historical lab test results to see what the trend is, and other data such as ICD9 diagnosis codes, and then this information is matched to patient satisfaction surveys such as the SF12 and SF36. The only thing holding this back is the lack of patient satisfaction data and health risk assessment data, more than the EHR and claims-based clinical data....The problem in trying to use predictive modeling to generate a ‘likely candidate list’ is getting data with which to indicate ‘willingness.’ If patient-generated health risk assessment and satisfaction data aren’t present, finding correlations between variables that would serve as surrogates for a patient’s willingness to change his or her behavior is going to be difficult.” Lawrence S. Borok, President, Vantage Point Healthcare Information Systems
 
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  For the sixth year in a row, a majority of respondents, 51.4%, ranked identification of high-risk patients for care management as the highest priority for how an organization could spend its funds on predictive modeling initiatives.

Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 6, Number 7,  Prioritizing Predictive Modeling Activities: High-Risk ID on Top
 
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  • Thought Leader’s Corner: “Can -- and should -- predictive models be developed to identify patients/members most or least likely to respond to, and modify behavior as a result of, wellness incentives, value-based benefit designs and related programs?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding MedeAnalytics; BCBS Vermont; MZI Healthcare and HP; GNS Healthcare; and Skila Mederi and Qforma
  • Catching Up With…William H. Rice MD
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