About PCCI

PCCI is an advanced, nonprofit healthcare analytics research and development organization with a collaborative team of expert data scientists and knowledgeable healthcare professionals that go beyond analyzing a patient’s medical data to provide all-encompassing insights that are revolutionizing healthcare. We know there’s no such thing as a simple human. Our cells may make us, but our environment shapes us. We analyze both to get to the root of a patient’s issue.

History of Innovation

August 2012 Predictive model for readmission

Predictive model alerts care team of patients most at risk for readmission.

January 2019 Community Vulnerability Compass

CVC enables visualization of the context and complexities of social barriers to health and well-being of vulnerable populations.

October 2019 PARADE

Predictive model helps prevent adverse drug events (PARADE).

January 2020 Pediatric Asthma Risk

Predictive model proactively identifies rising pediatric asthma risk.

March 2020 COVID-19 Collaboration

PCCI, Parkland, and Dallas County collaborated to address the multiple challenges COVID-19 presented to care providers and the community.

August 2020 IRIS Platform Patented

Cloud-based case management platform that supports patient referrals to community-based organizations to address a variety of needs.

May 2021 PTIM

Parkland Trauma Index of Mortality (PTIM) predicts mortality risks for adult trauma patients admitted in the first 12–72 hours.

August 2021 IP Sepsis Model

PCCI’s IP Sepsis model went live with Parkland partners to identify patients at high risk of sepsis development after admission.

December 2021 ISTHMUS™

Next-gen digital data environment synthesizing multiple sources to provide contextual, targeted, actionable insights at the point of care.

April 2022 Know Thy Patient (KTP)

Advanced analytics groups patients beyond primary disease/diagnosis (e.g., diabetes) to inform patient-centered treatment plans.

March 2023 PASS Dashboard

Pediatric Asthma Surveillance System identifies communities where children have higher vulnerability to poor asthma outcomes.

March 2024 HIV PrEP Eligibility Model

Predictive model identifies those at risk for HIV infection and eligible for PrEP to reduce transmission.

September 2024 Patent Granted – PPPIS

Patent granted for PCCI’s Personal Pandemic Proximity Index System and Method, used for hot-spotting areas of outbreak and opportunities.

AI in Medicine for Underserved Populations (AIM-UP)

Why We Do What We Do

For more than a decade, PCCI has been uniquely focused on researching, testing, and using AI, NMDoH, and connected communities of care to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Through thoughtful, responsible AI implementation, we can enable progress in addressing health inequities. Patients from complex, often disadvantaged backgrounds present unique challenges.

At each stage of their healthcare journey, multiple contextual factors, such as socioeconomic and cultural factors (e.g., lack of stable housing, language or literacy barriers), ability to access and navigate health systems, health staff (often unconscious) biases, and innumerable other factors can adversely impact their health outcomes. Providers also lack both visibility into patients’ changing conditions in between office visits and data to monitor risk trends.

AI can help integrate these factors, capture the cumulative effect of multiple risk drivers, identify those most at risk, and enhance clinical decision making and design of more proactive, personalized, and accessible care plans empowering patients to lead healthier lives.

PCCI’s AIM-UP Solutions

How We Do What We Do

PCCI’s approach in designing AIM-UP applications is rigorous and scientific, while ensuring patients are at the heart of everything we do. Highlights of our work center on:

Expanding Our Foundational Tools, Powering our AIM-UP Solutions. To build effective solutions, we need the capability to ingest, visualize, host, and curate traditional and non-traditional health, NMDoH, and other data to predict and intervene at all stages of a patient’s journey.
Building Three Types of Predictive Algorithms: Our Clinical Decision Support models empower healthcare teams to identify risk early by providing synthesized and timely information and insights to augment their decision-making and deliver the best possible care to their patients.
Population Health solutions identify vulnerable patient populations and predict rising risk, enabling earlier, personalized, and more effective interventions.
Our modeling of advanced NMDoH analytics through tools, such as our Community Vulnerability Compass, enables us to quantify (and integrate into our solutions) community-based socioeconomic vulnerabilities and provide root cause insights to support hyper-localized personal and community engagement and program design.

PCCI’s Values:

PROGRESS

We value progress over perfection. Our work is both innovative and practical.

COLLABORATION

We collaborate with our team, our partners and the community enabling us to go further, faster. There is power in diversity and numbers.

CARING

We have a servant approach and mind frame. Caring about each other, our partners and those we serve in the community is what motivates us every single day.

INITIATIVE

We go beyond what is asked of us. Expectations are starting points.

SCIENCE

We balance Innovation with science. Our work is grounded in scientific principles and rigor.

VISION

“We can do it if…” vs “We can’t do it because…”. We see healthcare, not as it is, but as it can become.

Equal Employee Experience

We celebrate and embrace our commitment to providing an employee experience where we ensure the workplace is fair for all employees no matter your age, or background or gender or sexual orientation. We strive to understand and appreciate the culture and background of everyone. PCCI’s mission is to address the needs of communities with differing levels of health. We engage data scientists, doctors, social workers, project managers and executives to fulfill that mission. We know our employees’ broad experiences —“who they are”– is critical to fully understanding the people we serve. Listening to and understanding the needs of the communities we assist is necessary to create innovative solutions to address health equity.

We strive to create a workplace experience that permits our employees to do their best work. Creating that ideal workplace is always a work in progress: PCCI will continue to educate, engage and listen to every member of our team and to the underserved individuals we strive to help.