Thursday, April 2, 2015

How 'Moneyball' analytics can predict population health

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What does baseball have to do with healthcare? Everything


In 1999, the immense power of applied analytics was put on display; but it wasn't at some technology conference or corporate seminar. It was on a baseball field, when the most unlikely of teams cobbled together a championship-caliber, yet under-budget roster using sophisticated analytics


The Oakland Athletics changed the world of baseball that year -– and provided a model for future adoptions of advanced statistics


Of course, you're probably familiar with the plot of Moneyball the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, later made into an academy-award winning film starring Brad Pitt. But you may not be familiar with the ripple effect that it's had on several inefficient areas of the business world. Most recently: Healthcare Read more...


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