Overview of how data analytics can be used in healthcare

1. Data Analytics in Healthcare
Yubin Park, PhD
CEO/CTO of Accordion Health, Inc.
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2. Accordion Health
• Founded in 2014 by 3 machine learning PhDs
• Yubin Park, PhD – currently CEO/CTO of the company
• Joyce Ho, PhD – Professor at Emory University
• Sriram Vishwanath, PhD – Professor at University of Texas at Austin
• We are a team of data scientists and engineers who deeply understand
• Nature of different machine learning and data analytics techniques
• Complexity of US healthcare and its noisy datasets
• We work with multiple healthcare payer organizations and risk-taking provider
organizations
• With our predictive analytics API and Web-based products, we help them control their costs,
increase their revenues, and most importantly improve the quality of care
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3. How do we help US healthcare?
• The payment model in healthcare is
shifting from Fee-For-Service (FFS) to
Value-Based Reimbursement (VBR)
• Physicians and health plans will get
paid for the values they bring to
patients, not for the services they
provide
• How do we measure the value?
• How do we improve the value?
• How do we align the value and incentive?
• Solution) Using advanced data analytics!
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Measure
Value
Measures
Identify
Opportunities
Suggest
actions for
improvements
Interventions
(actions)
Collect data

4. What techniques do we use?
• Time-series models are useful
• Longitudinal analysis is critical for deriving and measuring the value
• Tree-based models are useful
• In healthcare, you may see lots of interaction effects
• Tree-based models can capture such interaction effects
• Deep-learning based models can be helpful
• Complex and multi-length datasets
• Lots of natural language and unstructured data
• Convolutional/Recurrent Neural Nets are being actively investigated to handle such datasets
• Of course, we use Python and R
• To do all these stuffs, we use a mix of Python and R
• We develop our custom algorithms using Python
• We use R for exploring data and visualizing results
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