An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is the beating heart of a healthcare organization’s analytic capabilities. Successful EDWs can provide hugely valuable insights. Unsuccessful EDWs become black holes of effort and morale.
Category: Master Class
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Patient attribution 101: tips for setting up a dynamic model
Many healthcare analyses involve the concept of “patient attribution”—in other words, linking a patient to the provider responsible for their care. For example, you might want to know which primary care physician or clinic has been managing a patient’s health to properly assign the rewards when that patient has a good outcome (e.g., good medication adherence, or lower-than-expected spending over some period) or the responsibility for a bad outcome (e.g., a readmission, or a preventable emergency room visit).
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How to track patient features over time for pop health analytics
In improvement work, tracking performance over time is a core idea. However, it’s often quite hard, technically, to work with “dynamic” data — data that reflects the changing state of the world over time.