Patient Data Management Health analytics is a hot topic now, but to do the analytics you need data – this is where Electronic Health Records (EHR) come in. An integrated, standardized system for sharing and accessing health data has been “just around the corner” now for more than a decade. Despite a big push byContinue reading “Industry Spotlight: Health Analytics”
Daily Archives: September 3, 2019
Superusers
“Superusers” of medical services are the small fraction of patients that account for huge consumption of medical services. An article published August 14, 2019 in JAMA Surgery (online) reports on the application of machine learning methods to Medicare data on 1,049,160 Medicare patients who underwent surgery, and were then tracked over the next year to assessContinue reading “Superusers”
Job Spotlight: Biostatisticans
Biostatisticians are the shepherds (and the police) that guide the science of developing new therapies for disease. They come in several different flavors: Those involved in gathering information, designing experiments and analyzing data at the drug discovery stage – trying to sort out what works and what doesn’t, and learning which research directions have potentialContinue reading “Job Spotlight: Biostatisticans”