We learned that a team of health services researchers at Dartmouth College recently published a study in the Journal of Patient Safety using an early research version of Cyft to detect falls in inpatient notes. No one on their research team is a data scientist and using a relatively small sample size they outperformed previous efforts at this task by
If you’re in healthcare or data science I highly recommend reading “Predicting the Future - Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine” by Drs. Obermeyer and Emanuel in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The question of whether machine learning can contribute to making more accurate predictions, whether diagnostic or prognostic has long been answered in
The transition to value-based care has made it more important than ever for healthcare organizations to use their data to determine how best to allocate limited resources to achieve high quality care. In response, an onslaught of business intelligence vendors have descended on healthcare with data warehouses, reporting tools, and dashboard analytics that have led to tremendous efficiency in other