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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By : Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader
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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By: Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader

Overview of this book

In recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple bridges the gap between practising doctors and data scientists. It equips the data scientists’ work with healthcare data and allows them to gain better insight from this data in order to improve healthcare outcomes. This book is a complete overview of machine learning for healthcare analytics, briefly describing the current healthcare landscape, machine learning algorithms, and Python and SQL programming languages. The step-by-step instructions teach you how to obtain real healthcare data and perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics using popular Python packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. The latest research results in disease detection and healthcare image analysis are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will understand how to use Python for healthcare data analysis, how to import, collect, clean, and refine data from electronic health record (EHR) surveys, and how to make predictive models with this data through real-world algorithms and code examples.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program

The HVBP program rewards hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to Medicare patients. The HVBP program was enacted through the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and began in 2012.

Domains and measures

In 2018, there are approximately 20 measures in the HVBP program that span four different domains of hospital care quality. The list is ever expanding and will include approximately 25 measures by 2023. Let's take a look at each domain and measure here.

The clinical care domain

The clinical care...