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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Henry Ford Taps Philips for Predictive Analytics Engine to Manage At-Risk Patients
Integrated health system Henry Ford has selected Royal Philips for its predictive analytics engine CareSage to manage their patient populations by proactively identifying at-risk patients most likely to need an emergency transport in the next 30 days, helping prevent avoidable hospitalizations. According to reports, 57% of Medicare patients are released without any direct monitoring by a healthcare professional. To resolve this, CareSage provides analysis of real-time and historical data from
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Survey: Only 15% of Providers Use Predictive Analytics
Driven by the shift to value-based health care, advanced predictive analytics are gaining a larger footprint as providers search for analytic capabilities that will help them prevent patient illness, avoid penalties, and reduce the cost of care. This new landscape requires a different analytic approach that can identify at-risk patients before they get sick so that interventions can be applied and penalties avoided.
Despite the growing need, only 15 percent of providers are
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Rock Health: How Predictive Analytics Impacts Patient Care
As data sources and technology advance, algorithms will be able to deliver better, personalized care. Though personalized medicine has yet to deliver on the promise of its powers, its precursor, predictive analytics, has proven effective in many industries and is now focused on transforming healthcare. Dozens of new digital health products have hit the market and $1.9B has flowed into the space since 2011—but what does it take for an algorithm to accurately and reliably impact care?
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