by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Aug 4, 2016 | Prescient News
At the SAS Global Forum in April CEO Dr. James Goodnight unveiled a stunning new platform for SAS, called SAS Viya. The demos of Viya were amazing, but could the actual product stand up to rigorous testing by power users? Prescient’s Dr. Andrew Kramer got to do an...
by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Jul 5, 2016 | Prescient News
Length of stay is one of the most frequently used metrics for quality measurement in intensive care units (ICUs). Its definition is deceptively simple: discharge date-time minus admission date-time. There are varying opinions about when admission to the ICU begins and...
by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Jun 28, 2016 | Prescient News
In predictive models of binary outcomes such as mortality, the two areas of model accuracy can be loosely described as calibration and discrimination. Calibration measures prediction accuracy across the range of predictive values. Discrimination is a model’s...
by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Jun 24, 2016 | Prescient News
Think of the archetype Western movie. Beleaguered town folk out of desperation ask a nefarious character to restore law and order. While a few residents have concerns about the new sheriff, most are satisfied with getting somebody, anybody for protection. What...
by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Aug 27, 2015 | Prescient News
Medical Decision Network (MDN) has engaged the services of Prescient Healthcare Consulting (“Prescient”) to update existing predictive models in MDN’s ICUTracker, as well as create new models for additional critical care outcomes. ICUTracker serves...
by Dr. Andrew A. Kramer | Jul 21, 2015 | Prescient News
Banff, Alberta in Canada is known for its splendid beauty – in early September 2015 this idyllic location served as the site for the Acute Dialysis Quality Initative (ADQI) Consensus Conference on “Acute Kidney Injury in the Era of Big Data”. Prescient’s Dr....
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