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Improving Population Health Management, One Data Point at a Time

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And while I didn’t start my career thinking about a role in healthcare, in some ways, I feel like I came full circle to my roots. My grandfather was a pharmacist and my father was a doctor, so I guess healthcare was always in my blood. Healthcare Analytics.

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Healthcare Analytics and Big Data: Essential Ingredients to Improving Population Health

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Did the member recently visit a doctor, have surgery, or visit the ER? From the data, we know that others like him did best when they felt accountable to a person they did not want to let down. Lengthening the data by incorporating trends and trigger events. Did the member just get married, move, have a child, or get divorced?