Complimentary from the publisher

Complimentary from the publishers of Predictive Modeling News September 2017

Reference Based Pricing Research - Results With Prescription Drugs and Procedures

"The job of integrating different data sets in order to do predictive modeling is difficult and requires very large data sets. To do so in a collaborative fashion while avoiding conflicts of interest, i.e., maintaining confidentiality of pricing and contracts, is especially difficult. The best solution involves using an external data company to accomplish a seamless collaboration so as to avoid the difficulties and the pitfalls that healthcare organizations typically face."
-Swati Abbott, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Health Intelligence.

"Almost 40% of hospitals have no current capabilities to measure the outcomes of their activities."

Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2017, "Surveys Track Rise of Social Determinants of Health Data."

How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare

The Ninth Annual Predictive Modeling Web Summit

The Ninth Annual Predictive Modeling Web Summit features a 90-minute live webinar that starts with approaches in
positioning a healthcare organization for effective predictive analytics, and then involves two case studies both associated with different aspects of cancer care that are instructive in how risk adjustment and predictive analytics initiatives and research can be applied to key facets in the delivery of healthcare in this transformative and value based era.

	Jennifer Bresnick: 3 main types of big data analytics 1. Descriptive analytics can tell organizations what has already happened by using historical datasets to report upon events in the past. 2. Predictive analytics tell users what is likely to happen by using historical patterns to infer how future events are likely to unfold. 3. Continue reading here Source: Health IT Analytics

Surveys Track Rise of Social Determinants of Health Data
Accolades: SCIO Health Analytics, CORAnet, eClinicalWorks, Health Catalyst, OM1, and VitreosHealth
Infogix Sees Big Data Getting Bigger, Suggests Management Tips
Thought Leaders' Corner: "How can multiple healthcare organizations collaborate on predictive analytics initiatives—and what challenges do they face?"
Industry News with briefs regarding: Springbuk, Highmark, Omnicell, Roundtable Analytics, Fi-Med, Welltok, Vitreos Health, Hospitals & Health Networks, and NLP Logix
Catching Up With... Ken Perez MBA
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