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	"From what I and my colleagues have seen and heard over the last several months, there is a recent explosion in the number of health system and provider organizations (and vendors serving them) inquiring about predictive modeling. They seem to know that stratification and PM are needed to effectively manage a population, but they seem lacking in knowledge of what data they have and how they would access them.” Jonathan Weiner DrPH, Professor, Health Policy and Management; Director, PhD Program in Health Services Research and Policy; Deputy Director, Health Services Research & Development Center, Johns Hopkins University
	"We found that a patient on 10 medications is 25% more likely to re-enter the hospital within 30 days than a patient on two, regardless of medication." Excerpted from Healthcare Reform: The Solution is in the Data by Dan Hogan MD, CEO and President, Medalogix, Predictive Modeling News, Volume 5, Number 10
	UPMC Goes Big Into Big Data: Investing in an Enterprise Analytics Initiative Healthcare Informatics, September 30, 2012
	CMS to Issue Report on System to Prevent Fraud by End of September, Tavenner Says Bloomberg BNA, September 19, 2012
	Systems that detect fraud in Medicare and Medicaid to be integrated FierceGovernmentIT, September 19, 2012
	Analytics Can Expand Health Insurers' Role InformationWeek, September 19, 2012
	Using Predictive Analytics to Acquire New Patients and Influence Patient Behavior DOTmed News, September 13, 2012
	Healthcare Reform: The Solution is in the Data by Dan Hogan MD Patent Awarded for End-of-Life Predictive Model Verisk Health First Submitter to Receive End-to-End Testing Certification for DME Data, Unveils DxCG Medicaid ModelsSCIOinspire, Now SCIOHealth Analytics, Receives Healthcare Innovation Grant DST Health Solutions Joins as Founding Member of Hopkins’ Center’s Industry Partners Program Thought Leader’s Corner: “At this point in time, are hospitals and health systems generally investing and allocating adequate resources for predictive analytics initiatives in such areas as readmissions management, accountable care and payment reform?" Industry News with briefs regarding the National Predictive Modeling Summit and FICO Catching Up With…. Dan Hogan MD Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Medical Home News, or find out more
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