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Data Science and Surgeries: A Tool is not Enough

by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Oct 4, 2016 | Healthcare Data, Methodology

Suppose you’re about to undergo a complicated surgical procedure to remove an embolism in your carotid artery. The chief surgeon tells you that he has a new high-powered laser that is great at dissolving clots. Sounds great, right? But when you ask if the operation is...

Two Meaningful Ways to Partition Healthcare Data for Data Mining

by Marijean Jaggers | Jun 13, 2016 | Healthcare Data

So you’re going to develop a model that predicts a specific healthcare outcome. You’ve been fortunate in that your dataset has information from 100,000 admissions: 25,000 each from the previous four years (2012 through 2015). First and foremost, you can’t use all...

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