The Business Intelligence Blog

Over at The Health Care Blog, Deb Bradley, Vice President, Client Solutions at Verisk Health in Waltham, Massachusetts writes about some examples of the next generation healthcare analytics. Most of us who do analytics engineering as apart of our day jobs would agree, healthcare is on area where analytics should grow vastly. There is a lot of data that can be intelligently massaged to answer some of the most challeging health related questions.

Medical claims, pharmacy claims, lab values, HRAs, genetic markers, biometrics – the abundance of data is having an immediate impact on how analytics shape healthcare. Next generation analytics are bringing attention to health and wellness rather than disease-specific guidelines, and generating novel approaches to value-based medicine and care management.

Traditionally, analytics, such as predictive modeling, have been used to identify individuals for chronic care management and to set rates. New predictive models, however, include financial and clinical algorithms, which allow healthcare organizations to implement advanced ways to identify, manage and measure risk across and within a population.