Linda A. Winters-Miner, PhD: Seven ways predictive analytics can improve healthcare
Submitted By Charlene Ice, Created 10/13/2014 - 12:07
- Predictive analytics increase the accuracy of diagnoses.
- Predictive analytics will help preventive medicine and public health.
- Predictive analytics provides physicians with answers they are seeking for individual patients.
- Predictive analytics can provide employers and hospitals with predictions concerning insurance product costs.
- Predictive analytics allow researchers to develop prediction models that do not require thousands of cases and that can become more accurate over time.
- Pharmaceutical companies can use predictive analytics to best meet the needs of the public for medications.
- Patients have the potential benefit of better outcomes due to predictive analytics.
Source: Elsevier Connect, October 6, 2014
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