We Can Predict Where Measles Will Happen. Why Don’t We?

Whatever Happened to the World's Most Dangerous Pathway?

Measles Is Spiking Around The Globe. How Worried Should We Be?

The world has two kinds of measles problems. In low-income countries like Madagascar and in strife-ridden countries like Yemen, the disease takes a toll

How the battle against measles varies around the world

Measles is a global health threat. Snapshots of several countries show how stopping its spread depends on local conditions and beliefs.

5 Successful Risk Scoring Tips to Improve Predictive Analytics

Successful risk scoring is essential to effective population health as a means of identifying and treating patients with similar medical conditions and histories of illness.

Score Predicts Preventable Readmissions

A risk prediction score for hospitalized patients can find those most at risk of returning for avoidable reasons, researchers found.

How Predictive Analytics Is Impacting Patient Care

From palliative care to medical imaging, predictive analytics is helping doctors predict patient outcomes, influencing administered care.

Using deep learning to predict emergency room visits

From Phys: At IBM Research, we are exploring new solutions for a range of health care challenges. One such challenge is emergency room (ER) overcrowding, which can lead to long wait times for treat…

Tackling an Elephant: 5 Steps to a Predictive Safety Culture

Five steps to to take an organization from a reactive state to a proactive one that uses EHS and quality data to create a safer organization.

Predicting Hospitalization: Machine Learning Models On The Rise

Can machine learning give healthcare professionals an ability to apply interventions promptly and effectively?

Are hoverboards high-tech fun or an accident waiting to happen?

Learn how a few preventative steps may save a trip to the emergency room.

Can mapping conflict data explain and predict violence?

An innovative mapping project is trying to understand why conflict happens where it does.

Can Predictive Analytics Help Prevent Injuries?

Experts see tremendous potential in using predictive analytics for to predict the probability of injury and disease.

How Predictive Analytics and AI Shed Light on Payer Behavior

Health systems continue to face declining reimbursements and rising costs. Two expert discuss how predictive analytics, coupled with business and artificial intelligence, allows health leaders to deploy resources more effectively to help combat these concerns.

Insurer Uses Patients’ Personal Data To Predict Who Will Get Sick

A Philadelphia health insurance company analyzes its clients’ health data and other factors to find the frailest and assign them health coaches. That may improve health, but is it a breach of…

3 Reasons Construction Companies Fail When Trying to Predict Injuries

Workplace safety is one of the best things that a company can boast of. Taking care of its employees and making sure that their places of work are safe and hazard-free marks it as a company that people want to work for and that people can trust to build their project without any undue concern.…

Anyone could make this mistake. The fact it happens all the time is frightening.

Google AI can help doctors predict when patients might die

New Google AI is capable of sifting through thousands of documents in a patient's history to determine how long a patient may stay in the hospital or even if the person is likely to die there.

Zika destroyed her pregnancy. She doesn’t want it to happen to you

She never saw the mosquito that bit her and gave her Zika. And she had no way of knowing it would cost her a longed-for first pregnancy.

Whatever happened to the code of the street?

Pregnant women are the latest casualty of street violence.