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	"I and my colleagues at Johns Hopkins continue to be very interested in the numerous risk adjustment/predictive modeling implications of the ACA. With regard to the HIE/marketplaces, suffice it to say these issues are not front and center right now, but once things are up and running, they will move closer to the front burner. We are developing tools that HIEs and qualified health plans can use to manage all this. Also, as accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes continue to mature, supporting them with PM tools will become ever more important... All in all, we expect 2014 to be a very interesting and exciting year for the predictive analytics field.” Jonathan Weiner DrPH, Professor& Director of the Center for Population Health IT & CEO of the ACG Team, Johns Hopkins University
	Alacare Home Care and Hospice, the largest privately owned home health agency in Alabama, reports a 20.4% increase in the number of patients identified as clinically appropriate for hospice transfer, its directors report. They call the development “substantial,” as, they note, “numerous statistics show viable patients prefer and benefit from hospice care.” The increase comes 60 days after deploying Medalogix’s predictive modeling hospice transference suite. Excerpted from: Predictive Modeling News, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2013, "Case Studies: Predictive Modeling Software Helps Home Health Hospice Dual Operator Increase Identification of Clinically Appropriate Hospice Transfer Patients by 20.4%"
	Analytics integration spots unseen risks Healthcare IT News, December 3, 2013
	Big data invades healthcare FierceHealthPayer, November 21, 2013
	Successful partnerships crucial for use of predictive analytics Mariner, November 15, 2013
	Healthcare.gov Reinforces the Need for Omni-Channel Customer Service Pegasystems blog, November 12, 2013
	Rapid Insight and HealthDataViz Partner to Bring Predictive Analytics to Healthcare November 7, 2013
	Product and Service Providers Take the Stage for Our 4th Annual Vendor Issue Part I: Predictive Modeling Industry Vendor Company Profiles: Ault International Medical Management; DataSmart Solutions LLC; Medalogix; SAS; Vantage Point Healthcare Information Systems; and Verisk Health, Inc. Part II: Case Studies: Predictive Modeling Software Helps Home Health Hospice Dual Operator Increase Identification of Clinically Appropriate Hospice Transfer Patients by 20.4%; New Model Predicts Risk for Readmission to Hospital from Skilled Nursing Facilities; Pioneer ACO Brown & Toland Advances Patient-Centered Accountable Care Supported by Analytics from Humedica; Mayo Clinic Health System Prepares for Value Contracting with Humedica MinedShare Thought Leader’s Corner: “What trend in predictive analytics has your attention going into 2014?” Industry News with briefs regarding  IBM and UNC; Explorsys; SAS; Sage Bionetworks and IBM’s DREAM; and Health Catalyst 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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