Analytics Magazine: Focus on Healthcare

January/February 2012 issue of Analytics magazine is focusing healthcare analytics.

Here are the "how-to" and "what-not-to-do" stories that Analytics is known for.

• Peter Horner and Atanu Basu, in this issue's cover story, explain why the embrace of analytics is crucial to the paradigm shift from "volume" to "value" in healthcare reform.
• Tom Davenport argues that healthcare organizations need to finish implementing basic transaction data systems in order to make effective use of analytics in healthcare.
• Todd Steffes shows that predictive analytics to combat non-adherence to medication prescriptions can save lives and lower medical bills.
• Alexander Kolker focuses on healthcare management engineering, its scope, principles and potential, and what it means for operations research professionals.
• Runki Basu, Norm Archer and Basudeb Mukherjee describe how decision-making is improved by applying data mining and artificial neural networks to patient data.
• Rajib Ghosh and Theo Ahadome discuss telehealth's promising global future.
• Basudeb Mukherjee, Karim Kashavjee and Runki Basu relate the role of analytics in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network.