California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm

alphadogg writes "The Heritage Provider Network wants to do for healthcare what technology in the film Minority Report did for police work. In other words, it wants to use technology to pre-emptively predict when illness is likely to strike and take measures to prevent costly hospitalizations. This week Heritage announced that it was offering a prize of $3 million for any developer who successfully created a 'breakthrough algorithm that uses available patient data, including health records and claims data, to predict and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations.'"

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UPenn tried doing

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something similar - http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/
All they have to do now, is get the source, fork it on github, and add a few conditions for... well, conditions.

Let's see some academic collaboration happening OSS style!

Re:Really?

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or...

"Statistically you're likely to get so your premiums are going up by 588%"

or...

"There is a 22% likelihood that one of your kidneys will fail within 5 years, 44% for leukaemia blah blah.. how about one of our body scans??"

or..

Patient: Can I see a doctor?
HCP: Doctor? We dont need doctors.
Patient: But I'm sick. I think my kidneys are failing.
HCP: I dont think thats very likely. According to our software you only have a 2% chance of kidney failure. Its probably just gas.