When a woman learns she’s at high risk for a hospital visit because of asthma, it’s no accident. It’s predictive analytics from Optum®. By analyzing population health data, we can identify the likelihood of a medical event.
These projections give the patient and her provider a head start on controlling the condition. This is just one example of how we are modernizing infrastructure, by connecting the right data to the right experts at the right time.
Male 1: What does this zero-gravity thrill ride have to do with advances in modern health care? Using population health data, Optum can predict that this woman is at high risk for a hospital visit because of asthma. Insights from Optum help identify the right care team and action plan. Now, her asthma's under control and she can do the things she loves. That's predictive analytics.
Female 1: Analytics is truly making sense about what matters in the data and garnering insights from that. Predictive analytics take data and they project a likelihood of a certain event or disease state for a patient. And the ways that you can intervene with a patient can be really simple and really cost-effective. Just calling a patient, distributing an assessment, getting them in for regular visits – that's where you save the health care system money and keep people healthier.
The predictive analytics here at Optum identify who's at risk, so that the health system providers can interact with them proactively. Our lofty goal of getting all the data in one place to one consolidated view of the patient, that impacts health care systems because it actually gives a lot of perspective on the patient population as a whole. And ultimately, patients will benefit from more cost-effective care and more strategically relevant care.
Male 1: This is healthier. Powered by Optum. Connecting all the parts of health care, from health plans to providers to employers. Healthier is here.
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Optum Director of Analytics and Insights Danielle Ciofani explains how predictive analytics helps identify high-risk patients, leading to proactive care plans.
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