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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)

Other value-based programs

Aside from the value-based programs discussed above that are administered by the CMS, there are also additional programs that are administered by other agencies. Let's take a look at those here.

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

The HEDIS is used to measure the quality of health insurance plans. It is administered by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The HEDIS includes approximately 90 measures that cover virtually every medical specialty. Many of the measures share features with those already discussed previously, or with the 271 measures found in the clinical care category of MIPS.

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