With all of the data we have on diagnosis, comorbidity, age and sex, we still only access a small subset of factors that predict a person’s likelihood of experiencing complications […]

We’re in somewhat uncharted territory when it comes to measuring health care outcomes. Given the radical shifts in elective procedures, people avoiding care due to COVID-19 exposure concerns, and of […]

Emergency departments provide an essential role in the health care ecosystem, but a significant proportion of visits to the emergency department are for care that might have been delivered in […]

Bias in AI From time to time I have explored the topic of bias in AI. I came across another article on this front recently which has a nice summary […]

In some estimates, medical care accounts for approximately 11 percent of a person’s health and wellness; the rest is made up of individual behaviors as well as environmental factors.  When […]

To improve patient outcomes and drive value-based care success during COVID-19 and beyond, health plans need to use data for efficient and effective decision-making. However, many health care organizations struggle […]

How might a health ministry, insurer, or health system use existing health information to inform a data-driven prioritization model in response to COVID-19? In the movie Contagion, countries distributed the […]

How long will it take until health plans catch up with the evidence? Non face-to-face visits can: be done well provide excellent care improve outcomes improve satisfaction reduce healthcare costs […]