Predictive Analytics

Moving to Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

by Trevor Strome February 25, 2011

I read an excellent article in Information Management entitled “Having Analytics May Not Be Enough”, by Soumendra Mohanty. Although the article is not specifically about analytics in healthcare, the author does make some relevant points for those who use analytics in the field of healthcare. To gain (or maintain) a competitive advantage, businesses have been […]

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IBM “Streaming Analytics” allows early detection of brain injury and other health issues

by Trevor Strome November 1, 2010

In the news… Columbia University Medical Center researchers will be adopting IBM “Streaming Analytics” in a project to help detect brain injury and other health issues much more quickly than was previously possible. According to an article on  TMCnet Healthcare Technology, streaming analytics is capable of analyzing large volumes in data in motion. The article […]

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Peering Into the Future – Predictive Healthcare Analytics

by Trevor Strome March 24, 2010

There has been plenty of discussion lately about “predictive analytics”. Wikipedia defines predictive analytics as, “a variety of techniques from statistics, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events.” Business Intelligence (BI) vendors interested in acquiring (or enhancing) predictive analytics technologies hope that predictive analytics will become […]

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