Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare Challenge | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare Challenge | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

With New Challenge Competition, AHRQ Asks Innovators for a Tool To Forecast the Future AHRQ Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., notes that his recent appearance at AcademyHealth's 2019 Health Datapalooza was a chance to inform data experts about the agency's most recent challenge competition, "Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare." While other industries have used predictive analytics and related methods to anticipate future challenges and opportunities, healthcare has lagged behind. AHRQ's competition is intended to help spur innovation and develop faster solutions to the healthcare issues that affect most patients. Participants in AHRQ’s challenge will use predictive analytics and related methods to estimate hospital inpatient utilization for selected U.S. counties for 2017, as well as lengths of stay for selected U.S. counties for 2016.

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