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For a patient with asthma, the hospital would be able to score how likely they are to arrive at the emergency room by looking at whether they’ve refilled their asthma medication at the pharmacy, been buying cigarettes at the grocery store and live in an area with a high pollen count, Dulin said. The system may also score the probability of someone having a heart attack by considering factors such as the type of foods they buy and if they have a gym membership, he said. “What we are looking to find are people before they end up in trouble,” said Dulin, who is also a practicing physician. “The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out.”
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:03:02 +0000

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