Feb 2, 2018 | High Quality Data, Improved Experience of Care, Improving Population Health, Reducing Child Fatalities
Agencies: Use our tool Predictive analytics is increasingly seen as a technology that can improve child welfare outcomes, turning hindsight into insight and insight into value. Predictive analytics can be defined as analysis that uses data, statistics, and algorithms...
Feb 2, 2018 | High Quality Data, Improved Experience of Care, Improving Population Health, Reducing Child Fatalities
Build a data analytics project This document introduces child welfare administrators and policy makers to the benefits and challenges faced in using predictive analytics to improve child welfare practice. It suggests questions that administrators and policy makers...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, High Quality Data, Improved Experience of Care, Improving Population Health, Increased Access
Harnessing Data to Get Ahead of a Public Health Crisis Routine visits to the pharmacy took on new meaning—personally and professionally—for MITRE’s Jaya Tripathi in 2010. The analytics expert was helping a family member recover from a skiing accident and had to...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, High Quality Data, Improved Experience of Care, Improving Population Health, Increased Access
Emergency Room Physicians Look For Solutions to Curb Opioid Overdoses Emergency room physicians are often blamed for the rising number of opioid overdoses in the U.S. because they are generally the first to prescribe opioids to patients seeking pain relief. A...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, High Quality Data, Improved Experience of Care, Improving Population Health
MITRE investigator: Advanced analytics can help predict, fight opioid abuse The problem is “no longer just heroin and cocaine; it’s prescription drugs,” said Jaya Tripathi, principal investigator at the MITRE Corp. “If you look at the trends, despite the...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, Improving Population Health
Using Data to Reduce and Predict Prescription Drug Fraud In the United States, there was a 200 percent increase in opioid-related deaths from 2000 to 2014. In 2014 alone, more than 46,000 people died from a drug overdose, 28,000 of those stemming from opioid abuse....