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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Data analytics is a subfield of data science that involves examining large data sets to identify trends, develop charts, and create visual presentations to help business leaders and government officials make better decisions. According to the U.S. This is much faster than the average growth rate for all occupations of around 5%.

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business

Some health systems, such as the University of Michigan, have developed protocols that would alert providers with EMR advisories of incomplete ACPs so that they can give patients advance-directive packets to fill out at home or with the help of a social worker. Here are our recommendations. Build a national registry.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business

As aging baby boomers continue to join the program, Medicare enrollment will rise at 3% a year until the end of the decade in 2029, and 2.4% Use data analytics to develop a pathway to higher profitability. The losses of U.S. a year in the decade after. By 2030, there will be 81.5 million Medicare beneficiaries vs. 55 million today.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. Our DEI research classifies both China and India as “Break Out” countries, which means they are experiencing strong digital growth.