Use of data analytics in health care

Use of data analytics in health care

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  USEOF DATA ANALYTICS INHEALTH CARE
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  WHAT IS HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS?  Theuse of healthcare analytics can potentially reduce the cost of treatment, predict disease outbreaks, circumvent preventable illnesses and generally improve the quality of care and life of patients.  Big data essentially takes vast quantities of information, digitizes it and then consolidates and analyses it with specific technologies.  physicians’ decisions are more frequently based on evidence, research and clinical data provided by healthcare analytics is in much higher demand.
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  APPLICATION OF DATA ANALYTICS IN HEALTHCARE Withdata analytics in healthcare, it can become easier to gather medical data and convert it into relevant and helpful insights, which can then be used to provide better care. Below are some examples of how healthcare analytics can be used to foresee problems and prevent them before it’s too late, as well as evaluate current methods, actively involve patients in their own healthcare, speed up and improve treatment, and track inventory more efficiently.
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  Staffing Finding the perfectbalance so that managers don’t overstaff and lose money, or understaff and have poor patient outcomes, can be remedied by healthcare analytics. Hospitals in Paris used big data to analyse 10 years' worth of hospital admissions records, allowing them to find patterns and forecast visit and admission rates 15 days in advance.This enabled them to pre-emptively schedule extra staff when a high number of patients were expected, which led to reduced wait times and a higher quality of care for their patients.
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  Electronic health records (EHRs) most commonapplication of big data in healthcare in the U.S. 94 percent of hospitals have adopted EHRs. Each patient has their own digital health record which includes everything from allergies to demographic information. Every record is made up of a single adjustable file, allowing doctors to complete changes through the years with no paperwork and no risk of repeating data.
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  Enhancing patient engagement Many potential patientsare also consumers who are already utilizing smart devices that double as wearable health devices that track their steps, heart rates, hydration levels, sleep patterns, etc. Patients are directly involved in monitoring their health, and incentives from health insurance companies can motivate them to lead a healthier lifestyle. Patients who utilize wearable health devices can track specific health trends and upload them to the cloud where their physicians can observe them. Patients with asthma or high blood pressure may be able to reduce visits to the doctor and gain more independence with these devices.
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  Preventing OpioidAbuse According to theCentre for Disease Control (CDC), on average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. In fact, in 2017 opioid overdose became the most common cause of accidental death in the U.S., overtaking road accidents.The application of healthcare analytics can help solve this critical problem. Blue Cross Blue Shield started working with analytics experts to analyse years of insurance and pharmacy data.They were able to identify 742 risk factors that predict with high accuracy whether or not someone is at risk for opioid abuse
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  Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics isone of the biggest business intelligence trends, but their potential reaches much farther than just the business field. Optum Labs, a U.S. health services innovation company, collected the EHRs of more than 30 million patients to create a database for predictive analytics tools that will help enhance and streamline the delivery of patient care.Their goal is to use data and advanced analytics to achieve the "TripleAim of improved outcomes, reduced costs and an improved patient experience."They help doctors make data-driven decisions within seconds, and can even predict and prevent the onset or progression of some conditions.
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  4 Emerging Strategies to AdvanceBig DataAnalytics in Healthcare Researchers are developing new strategies to overcome key barriers hindering the use of big data analytics in healthcare. Big data analytics technologies have demonstrated their promise in enhancing multiple areas of care, from medical imaging and chronic disease management to population health and precision medicine. These algorithms could increase the efficiency of care delivery, reduce administrative burdens, and accelerate disease diagnosis. Despite all the good these tools could potentially achieve, the harm these algorithms could cause is nearly as great. Concerns about data access and collection, implicit and explicit bias, and issues with patient and provider trust in analytics technologies have hindered the use of these tools in everyday healthcare delivery. Healthcare researchers and provider organizations are working to find solutions to these issues, facilitating the use of big data analytics in clinical care for better quality and outcomes.
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  PROVIDING COMPREHENSI VE,QUALITY TRAINING DATA  Inhealthcare, it’s widely understood that the success of big data analytics tools depends on the value of the information used to train them. Algorithms trained on inaccurate, poor quality data will yield erroneous results, leading to inadequate care delivery.  However, obtaining quality training data is a difficult, time- intensive effort, leaving many organizations without the resources to build effective models.  Researchers across the industry are working to overcome this challenge. In 2019, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Library (CSAIL) developed an automated system that can gather more data from images used to train machine learning models, synthesizing a massive dataset of distinct training examples.  The dataset can be used to improve the training of machine learning models, enabling them to detect anatomical structures in new scans.
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  ELIMINATING BIAS IN DATA AND ALGORITHMS As healthcare organizations become increasingly reliant on analytics algorithms to help them make care decisions, it’s critical that these tools are free of implicit or explicit bias that could further drive health inequities.  With the existing disparities that pervade the healthcare industry, developing flawless, bias-free algorithms is often challenging. In a 2019 study, researchers from the University of California Berkeley discovered racial bias in a predictive analytics platform referring high-risk patients to care management programs.  To remove bias from big data analytics tools, developers can work with experts and end-users to understand what clinical measures are important to providersWhile communicating with providers and end-users during algorithm development is extremely important, often this step is only half the battle. Collecting the high-quality data needed to develop unbiased analytics tools is a time-consuming, difficult task.
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  DEVELOPING QUALITY TOOLSWHILE PRESERVING PATIENT PRIVACY  Researchers fromthe Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania also recently developed a solution to protect patient confidentiality. In a study published in Scientific Reports, the team described a new technique that enables clinicians to train machine learning models while preserving patient data privacy.  Using an emerging approach called federated learning, clinicians could train an algorithm across multiple decentralized devices or servers holding local data samples without exchanging them.
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  ENSURING PROVIDERS TRUSTAND SUPPORT ANALYTICS TOOLS  In arecent report from the American HospitalAssociation (AHA), the organization noted that one way organizations could secure provider trust in these tools is to use AI to manage unsustainable workloads.  Researchers from MIT’s CSAIL have also worked to increase providers’ trust of analytics tools.A team recently developed a machine learning tool that can adapt when and how often it defers to human experts based on factors such as the expert’s availability and level of experience.