Publication in the Age of AI
It is now faster to write a paper than to properly review it. Restructuring publication around data, metadata, and reproducible analysis — with AI on both sides — can restore the signal.
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Notes on healthcare analytics, predictive modeling, and measuring the value of what you build.
Disruption Through Specialization
It has been hypothesized that [disruptions in medical care](http://www.claytonchristensen.com/books/the-innovators-prescription/) will be partly driven by the commoditization of certain procedures. While hospitals can address almost any ailment, their level of expertise…
Availability of specialists for patients on Medicare
For patients who are new to Medicare it can be difficult to find a physician. This barrier to healthcare is almost certainly stressful and may even be a source of…
Procedure Costs and Treatment Decisions
There have been a number of articles ([1](http://ehranalytics.blogspot.com/2014/12/billing-and-financial-incentives-in.html),[2](http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/PDFs/health/reformhealthcare_IB5.pdf),[3](http://healthblog.ncpa.org/using-financial-incentives-in-health-care/)) discussing the financial incentives built into the healthcare system in the United States. Built into these discussions are two key assumptions: (1)…
Billing and financial incentives in healthcare
In order to bill the insurance company, your physician must boil down each interaction and procedure performed into one of around 7,400 medical codes. In essence, when you seek medical…
List of procedures that cost Medicare (and patients) the most money
Data from the recently released [Medicare provider utilization and payment data](http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier.html) contain cost information for over 5000 procedures performed for seniors in the United States in 2012. The data is…
Medicare release of 2012 Part B data
Recently the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released [Medicare provider utilization and payment data](http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier.html) to the public. The data released accounts for a relatively small and biased view…
A rapidly changing landscape is leading to uncertainty and opportunities throughout healthcare
Huge volumes of data about patient health from electronic medical records (EMR), high-throughput molecular data, insurance claims, the “quantified self” movement, and social media, are rapidly becoming available. At the…
Publicly Available Electronic Health Data
This entry in the blog is a list of electronic health data sets that are available, in some way or another. Some are freely available, some require fees and some…
EMR Data access: The New Zealand National Minimum Dataset
Before I continue I want to acknowledge that, for good reason, it is difficult to get access to electronic medical records data. That makes it very tough for statisticians who…
Disruptive Transformation for Hospital Systems and a Couple of Places where Statisticians can Help
For many years hospitals and physicians have been paid by insurance companies for each procedure they perform. This may seem reasonable since every procedure performed, from discussing a patient's disease…