The State of Advanced Analytics in Healthcare: Seven Industry Leaders Speak Out

Physicians want to understand the individual contribution of data elements in the final model’s outcome before they develop trust in the system.

Knowledgeable data analysts working side-by-side with physicians are a second factor in building physician trust according to Mark Lambrecht, Director of Global Health and Life Sciences at SAS. Hospital and health system CIOs that govern innovation, measure performance, explain, and work together with their physicians will be winners in the move to advanced analytics.

One example of Commonwealth’s data omnivorous approach is the incorporation of weather data to notify asthma patients of upcoming concerns and deliver preventative supplies as described in the case example above.

Warehouses can now process more data and accept different data varieties and shapes. This gives users the ability to pump more raw data into the warehouse and transform it afterward.