Δ
Healthcare
Business Automation Solution
Python, Tableau, Jupyter
The company is a large U.S. provider of multiple software solutions for the healthcare sector that help optimize costs, reduce risk, support compliance processes, enhance customer engagement, and create new revenue streams.
One of the client’s products is a web platform that helps hospitals and insurance companies analyze and predict the likelihood of various events by running sophisticated predictive models based on historical data, such as:
The client was looking to extend the offering with new analytics, expand the coverage to include additional hospitals in the U.S., and provide the healthcare industry with sophisticated analytics to enhance patient outcomes. To make this possible, the company approached NIX—a proven data science development and consulting company—to enhance the existing predictive models and ensure their smooth performance in the long run.
The existing predictive models were developed many years ago and needed to be updated annually due to constant changing of rules in the healthcare industry such as treatment plans, diagnosis definitions, new procedures, etc. Failure to comply with regulations in the healthcare industry can lead to various negative consequences such as financial setbacks, breaches in security, revocation of licenses, disruptions in business operations, subpar patient care, loss of trust, and damage to reputation.
Therefore, the NIX team needed to train models and keep them up to date, ensuring quality monitoring and re-training with newer historical data.
The client provided the NIX team with a modeling Informix dataset to train predictive models—one of the largest all-payer inpatient databases. This dataset covers several years’ worth of data and includes over 60% of all discharges from U.S. inpatient hospitals. It’s a compilation of information from both public and proprietary state sources, as well as from individual and group hospital contracts.
The NIX process included the following steps:
Transforming and categorizing the data by mapping the input diagnosis, procedure codes, discharges, etc.
Identifying and correcting errors or inconsistencies in the data such as missing or incorrect values and duplicate records using SAS—a programming language used for statistical analysis. This excludes hospitals that don’t match our models (federal-owned facilities, non-US states facilities, etc) as well as types of discharges (against medical advice, without official leave, etc).
We identified the most pertinent features or variables that are expected to impact the predictive model. In doing so, we established discharge attributes that influence our events, such as the relationship between neonatal mortality and birth weight, or the presence of non-standard diagnoses. This helped minimize the data’s dimensionality, improve the model’s precision, and mitigate overfitting.
By utilizing Python (Numpy, sklearn, SciPy, pandas), we trained the chosen models to detect patterns, correlations, and relationships in the data that can aid in making predictions.
We utilized different types of feature selection processes to identify a set of predictors, and subsequently ran logistic regression to gauge the influence of these predictors on our events. Finally, we selected parameters and a set of features to optimize the performance of our predictive model.
The trained model’s performance was assessed by utilizing Tableau for data visualization, SAS business intelligence tool, and Python to measure model’s performance. This evaluation process facilitated the identification of areas for improvement and the determination of the model’s overall effectiveness.
We deployed trained models to a production environment where it can be used to make predictions on the сlient’ss data.
The client received a robust data analytics solution with up-to-date predictive models that can be integrated with other healthcare systems and tools to provide real-time insights and recommendations to healthcare providers.
Healthcare providers have fast access to evidence-based clinical decision support systems, leading to:
3 Data Analysts
Python, Scikit-learn, Tableau, Informix, Jupyter
Multi-tenant SaaS platform that provides clients with a convenient tool for health data analysis.
Robust data engineering and analytics solution that enables real-time reports for efficient pharmacy management.
AWS data analytics platform for an educational 3D platform that provides actionable insights on marketing and product activities.
See more success stories
Our representative gets in touch with you within 24 hours.
We delve into your business needs and our expert team drafts the optimal solution for your project.
You receive a proposal with estimated effort, project timeline and recommended team structure.
ServiceNow is a SaaS-based platform that streamlines processes across the organization and offers a holistic approach to business and IT management.
Sprints yield great results for development projects. How does one assess their success? Learn how to effectively run a sprint retro to build the best IT products.
Digital transformation can be challenging and overwhelming. Use our guidelines to effortlessly leverage the benefits of business process automation.
Keep updated on the 25 latest trends in website design that reign supreme today and are going to carry the day in the niche in 2023.
Data Science vs Artificial Intelligence: the Role of Both Technologies in the Modern World.
The DevOps culture bets on the intra-team collaborative spirit above all. Many critical advantages stand behind. Why not adopt the DevOps workflow, if so?
Xamarin provides a way to build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows completely in C#. Take a look at the features of Xamarin application development.
Release of .NET MAUI sparked conversations about the future of Xamarin. Today we will discuss what MAUI brings to the table and how it can benefit your project.
Understand the strategies of other major companies that outsource so you can ensure that your business is run in the most cost-effective manner possible.
See more insights
Schedule Meeting
