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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple
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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

by Vikas (Vik) Kumar
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
268 pages
8h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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History of healthcare analytics

The origin of healthcare analytics can be traced back to the 1950s, just a few years after the world's first computer (ENIAC) was invented in 1946. At the time, medical records were still on paper, regression analysis was done by hand, and there were no incentives given by the government for pursuing value-based care. Nevertheless, there was a burgeoning interest in developing automated applications to diagnose and treat human disease, and this is reflected in the scientific literature of the time. For example, in 1959, the journal Science published an article entitled "Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis," by Robert S. Ledley and Lee B. Lusted that explains mathematically how physicians make a medical ...

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