“… However, I was also reminded that we’re living with a gap in the availability of data and information to guide the decisions that policymakers, health system leaders, and providers are faced with each and every day—and the imperative to act right now as boldly as we can to make more data and information as accessible and usable as possible.”
“That’s why AHRQ has taken steps to spur innovation and the development of new solutions to these problems through our challenge competitions, and why I was so pleased that I could announce at the conference our newest data challenge: Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare…”
“Other industries have used predictive analytics and related methods to anticipate future challenges and opportunities. Healthcare, unfortunately, has lagged behind. But AHRQ believes that predictive analytics has the potential to help policymakers, researchers, and others anticipate and plan for emerging needs in healthcare utilization and spending. While others continue their impressive efforts to develop new treatments and cures, we need to address the imperative to provide healthcare to people who require it now—whether preventive care or palliative care or at any other care point between the two. Predictive analytics is an essential tool to help meet that goal.”
“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…” Read the full blog here.
Source: With New Challenge Competition, AHRQ Asks Innovators for a Tool to Forecast the Future – By Gopal Khanna, April 17, 2019. AHRQ.
