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	“One area that will be important with growing patient responsibility will be to understand the priorities of the healthcare consumer at a very granular level. Payers and providers must understand how consumers utilize the network, when and why they go outside it and how and when they pay for services and from there build predictive tools that can optimize these transactions. If my music app knows what kind of music I like and Amazon can recommend purchases before I order, there is a huge opportunity in healthcare for payers and providers to learn about consumers and make their experience so good they don’t just leave for a few dollars or a promotion from a competitor.” Bill Fox, JD, MA, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
	For selecting patients for interventions, 83% of MCOs [Managed Care Organizations] use patients’ prescription claims to trigger interventions, 40% use retrospective adherence measures and 7% use predictive analytics that predict patients’ medication adherence levels. Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2014, "A Comprehensive Survey of Managed Care Organization Medication Adherence Intervention Programs"
	Calibration of risk prediction models: impact on decision-analytic performance Medical Decision Making, abstract only, August 25, 2014
	Mass General uses predictive analytics for surgical decision-making Healthcare Dive, August 21, 2014
	Developing a Genetic Fuzzy System for Risk Assessment of Mortality After Cardiac Surgery Journal of Medical Systems, abstract only, August 14, 2014
	Hospitals Use Predictive Analytics to Allocate Resources Datanami, August 7, 2014
	VA puts the 'big' in big data predictive analytics Modern Healthcare, August 7, 2014
	Predictive analytics tool pinpoints future doc shortages Health IT Analytics, August 4, 2014
	Shifting from Predicting to Forecasting: One Healthcare Expert’s Perspective Healthcare Informatics, August 3, 2014
	Comprehensive Survey of Managed Care Organization Medication Adherence Intervention Programs by Clifford Jones Can Predictive Analytics Help Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections? Journal Review: Dynamic Medication Adherence Modeling in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Markov Microsimulation Methods Application; Allegheny Health Network Team Develops Biomarker for Early Detection of Esophageal Cancer; Biomarkers Aim to Help Predict Heart Disease Risk; Use of Early Disease-Modifying Drug Adherence Measure to Predict Future Adherence in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Thought Leaders’ Corner: “How can predictive modeling be successfully used for member and patient retention?" Industry News with briefs regarding Explorys and Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin; EcoHealth Alliance; OpenClinica LLC; Quantum Innovations Inc. and Healthcare Alliance Group; New York Digital Health Accelerator; and St. Luke’s University Health Network and Capital BlueCross Catching Up With….Matthew J. Wilson PhD 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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