Deadline is June 28 for AHRQ Competition on Advancing Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

Applications are due on June 28 for AHRQ’s challenge competition to use predictive analytics to spur innovation and develop faster solutions to current healthcare challenges. The total prize pool for the Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare Challenge is $225,000. Applicants must use predictive analytics and related methods to estimate hospital inpatient utilization for selected U.S. counties in 2017. The proposal must also provide the predicted values of the number of hospital inpatient discharges and the average lengths of stay for selected U.S. counties in 2016 by applying the model, methods and analytic approach used to obtain the 2017 estimates. Access more information about the challenge.