Editor's Note: Paul Bradley, PhD, is the Chief Data Scientist at ZirMed, a company empowering healthcare organizations to optimize revenue and population health with an end-to-end platform of cloud-based financial and clinical performance management solutions. Predictive analytics – using data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data – has become a staple of many industries.Brick-and-mortar retailers use it to
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Connance Integrates Patient’s Socio-demographics Into CareWire’s Patient Engagement Platform
Connance, a provider of healthcare predictive analytics solutions, has partnered with CareWire, a text-first, mobile patient engagement solution provider, to integrate a new set of predictive analytics into CareWire’s HIPAA-compliant messaging platform for patients. Connance and CareWire are piloting the solution and anticipate general release of the enhanced capabilities in Q4. Connance leverages data science, integrated to workflow to drive enhanced performance. Connance delivers Patient Pay
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )
CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore. “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care. PHMaaS
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KenSci Nabs $8.5M to Develop Machine Learning Apps for Healthcare
KenSci, a Seattle-based digital health startup building the world’s first vertically integrated machine learning platform for healthcare has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Ignition Partners with participation from Osage University Partners and Mindset Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to scale its machine learning platform for predictive risk management and expand operations to support the company’s rapidly growing customer base.Incubated at the University of
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GHX: Predictive Analytics Named Top 2017 Priority for Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders
Predictive analytics and the use of data for informed decision making has been named as a top priority for healthcare supply chain leaders in 2017, according to a recent Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) survey. The results are based on a survey conducted by GHX with its Best 50 provider organizations on priorities and outcomes for the healthcare supply chain in 2017. The survey also revealed that top performing supply chain organizations will look to improve price accuracy between
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PeraHealth Raises $14M for Predictive, Real-Time Clinical Surveillance
PeraHealth, a Charlotte, NC based provider of predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions has raised $14 million in funding from Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm. As the healthcare industry progresses toward value-based care, high costs surrounding chronic diseases and infections continue to escalate. For example, sepsis kills 258,000 people in the U.S. every year and costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $24 billion annually, according to the Sepsis Alliance. PeraHealth is
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Mount Sinai Taps CloudMedx to Use Predictive Analytics for CHF Patients
Mount Sinai Hospital and CloudMedx, today announced a collaborate on congestive heart failure to improve workflows and patients care management. As part of the collaboration, Mount Sinai will leverage intelligent predictive insights from CloudMedx in order to identify patients who are at higher risk of CHF and use evidence based care interventions to improve their outcomes such as reduced readmissions and overall well-being.Mount Sinai wanted to combine evidence based digital medicine technology
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Predictive Analytics Saves Oklahoma HMO $10M in Annual Savings
Oklahoma-based HMO, GlobalHealth, recently published a case study analyzing the results of their proactive outreach program. The program, built on big data with predictive analytics platform ViterosHealth, finds members whose health was most likely to change for the worse and implements changes to prevent catastrophic health events. Since implementation, GlobalHealth has realized an 18 percent reduction in emergency room encounters and emergent hospital admissions, a 22 percent reduction in
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Executive Health Centre Taps BaseHealth for Genomics-driven Health Assessment Engine
BaseHealth, a comprehensive predictive analytics company for healthcare has inked a partnership with Canada-based Executive Health Centre, one of the leading preventative health care clinics in North America. Through the partnership, Executive Health Centre will leverage BaseHealth’s genomics-based predictive analytics engine to enhance their personalized wellness assessments and action plans. The integration is being rolled out to Executive Health Centre’s patients effective
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What is the Relationship Between Precision Medicine & Predictive Analytics?
Editor's Note: Prakash Menon is the CEO at Basehealth, a science and technology leader that adds genomic precision to predictive analytics and population health management. Let’s not bury the lead. It’s finally possible to effectively model diseases and predict risk, based on an individual’s unique clinical, lifestyle, environmental and genetic data. True predictive analytics for healthcare have arrived at long last. Back to The Future Historical medical information that resides in
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