"Person-Centered" Health Analytics: A Conversation with Dwight McNeill (July 14th)

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Health care analytics has typically referred to modeling insurer or payer risk or to predict patient utilization or to segment patient populations.  However, because of advances in personal or wearable medical devices, supporting software applications and the increasing use of electronic health records, individuals or patients now have the opportunity to gather their own health and medical data and information and use it to better manage their health status and/or medical needs.  This opportunity is what's become termed the democratization of health care or alternatively the emancipation of the patient.  

During this 25 minute conversation Dr. Dwight McNeill provides an overview of his recently published work, "Using Person-Centered Health Analytics to Live Longer," i.e., he unpacks four domains he identifies ("knowing me," "protecting health," "minding illness," and "managing data") that can empower, enable and equip an individual to manage their health and medical needs.  Dwight also discusses barriers to the adoption to "person-centered" analytics  and near future potential of these tools.          

Dr. Dwight McNeill is Lead Faculty for the International Institute for Analytics.  He is also President of WayPoint Health Analytics which provides consultation to organizations on health and healthcare analytics.  During his 30-year career, he has worked in corporate settings, most recently as global leader for business analytics and optimization for the healthcare industry for IBM and previously as director of healthcare information at GTE Corporation (Verizon).  Earlier, Dwight worked for the federal Department of Health and Human Services and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for information companies, and in provider settings.  Dwight has published two related books on healthcare analytics in 2013: A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare: What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports; and, Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences: Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices.   He has also published frequently in Health Affairs and other related journals. Dwight earned his PhD from Brandeis University in Health and Social Policy and his MPH degree from Yale University in Public Health and Epidemiology.  

For more on "Using Person-Centered Health Analytics to Live Longer" see: http://www.amazon.com/Dwight-McNeill/e/B00DC26RXW. 

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