How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care / Hill, Colin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Colin, author.

Loukides, Michael Kosta, author.

O'Reilly, Tim, author.

Steele, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care, Cost of.

Medicine--Data processing.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the early days of the 20th century, department store magnate JohnWanamaker famously said, "I know that half of my advertising doesn'twork. The problem is that I don't know which half." That remainedbasically true until Google transformed advertising with AdSense basedon new uses of data and analysis. The same might be said about healthcare and it's poised to go through a similar transformation as newtools, techniques, and data sources come on line. Soon we'll makepolicy and resource decisions based on much better understanding ofwhat leads to the best outcomes, and we'll make medical decisionsbased on a patient's specific biology. The result will be betterhealth at less cost. This paper explores how data analysis will help us structure thebusiness of health care more effectively around outcomes, and how itwill transform the practice of medicine by personalizing for eachspecific patient.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

Online resource; Title from title page (viewed August 24, 2012)

ISBN:

9781449356187

1449356184

OCLC:

848884052