Healthcare analytics has the potential to reduce costs of treatment, predict outbreaks of epidemics, avoid preventable diseases, and improve quality of life. It can improve processes, enhance patient care, and save lives by using analytics to better predict patient needs and staff accordingly. Electronic health records store a patient's comprehensive medical history digitally, allowing doctors to track changes over time with no risk of lost data or duplication. Analyzing demographic health data allows for strategic planning to identify factors that discourage treatment uptake. Analytics also helps prevent security threats, fraud, and inaccurate insurance claims while streamlining the claims process. The patient experience, overall population health, and operational costs can all be improved through healthcare analytics.
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1) Patients PredictionsFor
Improved Staffing
If you put on too many workers, you run the
risk of having unnecessary labor costs add
up. Too few workers, you can have poor
customer service outcomes – which can be
fatal for patients in that industry.
Applications that demonstrate how
an analytical approach can improve
processes, enhance patient care,
and, ultimately, save lives:
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2) Electronic health
records(EHR)
• Every patient has his own digital
record which includes
demographics, medical history,
allergies, laboratory test results,
etc.
• Every record is comprised of one
modifiable file, which means that
doctors can implement changes
over time with no paperwork and
no danger of data replication.
• EHRs can also trigger warnings
and reminders when a patient
should get a new lab test or track
prescriptions to see if a patient has
been following doctors’ orders.
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3) Using Health
DataFor Informed
Strategic Planning
• The use of big data in
healthcare allows for
strategic planning thanks to
better insights into people’s
motivations.
• Care managers can
analyze check-up results
among people in different
demographic groups and
identify what factors
discourage people from
taking up treatment.
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4) Reduce FraudAnd
Enhance Security
• Analytics helps to prevent security threats
by identifying changes in network traffic,
or any other behavior that reflects a cyber-
attack.
• It can help prevent fraud and inaccurate
claims in a systemic, repeatable way.
• Analytics helps to streamline the
processing of insurance claims, enabling
patients to get better returns on their
claims and caregivers are paid faster
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• The patient
experiencewill
improve dramatically,
including quality of
treatment and
satisfaction levels
• the overall health of
the population can
also be enhanced on
a sustainable basis
• operational costs
can be reduced
significantly.
Summary