Video: Exploring Predictive Analytics in Healthcare: An Interview with PCCI Experts
Digital Health featured PCCI’s Yusuf Tamer, PhD, and Parkland’s Nainesh Shah, MD, at HIMSS24. In this interview, the two discussed the use of predictive analytics models that improve patient outcomes with respect to sepsis.
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In the News: PCCI Programs Included In List of Top Predictive Analytics Roundup
HealthIT Analytics included PCCI’s suicide screening and preterm birth prevention in its roundup story of “10 high-value use cases for predicative analytics in healthcare”
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https://healthitanalytics.com/news/10-high-value-use-cases-for-predictive-analytics-in-healthcare
Publications: PCCI experts contribute to paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM Group).
PCCI’s George Oliver, MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical Informatics and Venkatraghavan Sundaram, PhD, M. Pharm, Program Manager, contributed to this paper, along with many others, on the “Pragmatic Trial of Hospitalization Rate in Chronic Kidney Disease.”
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311708#ap0
In the News: Healthcare Finance Features PCCI’s Dr. Naeem on Behavioral Health at HIMSS
Telehealth, wearables and artificial intelligence all hold promise to increase access to care for underserved populations.
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https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/technology-moving-needle-behavioral-health
In The News: Health IT Analytics Takes a Deep Dive into PCCI’s Suicide Prevention Program
Recently, Health IT Analytics interviewed PCCI’s Jacqueline Naeem, MD, Senior Medical Director, and Kimberly Roaten, PhD, ABPP, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and associate chief quality and safety officer for Behavioral Health – Parkland Health about the suicide screening and prevention program that is being used in all of Parkland’s facilities.
Parkland Health & Hospital System (PHHS) and Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) in Dallas, Texas have successfully achieved this with their Universal Suicide Screening Program. Two experts from the initiative sat down to discuss the program’s hurdles, successes, and future plans in a recent episode of Healthcare Strategies.
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In the News: D CEO Features PCCI’s Trauma Predictive Model
PCCI’s artificial intelligence is helping trauma surgery teams make data-based decisions about when to operate at Dallas County’s safety net hospital.
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At Parkland Health, the End of Subjective Surgery – D Magazine
In the News: PCCI Data Scientist Talks With Healthcare IT News About Sepsis Prevention
Yusuf Tamer, PhD, principal data and applied scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, offers a sneak preview of his HIMSS24 session, which offers a detailed look at one of artificial intelligence’s most promising use cases.
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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/how-ai-and-fhir-can-help-reduce-sepsis-mortality-rates
VIDEO: PCCI CEO, Steve Miff, Leads Invest Dallas-Fort Worth Launch Conference Panel
In this video from the recent Invest Dallas-Fort Worth Launch Conference, PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff, PhD, moderated a panel, “Closing the Gap: How educators and healthcare professionals collaborate to improve healthcare outcomes, the talent gap, and workforce wellbeing.” This important panel discussed providing more access to care, the importance of unbiased data, and strategies to improve healthcare outcomes.
PCCI Sachs Summer Scholar Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 List
In its recently released 30 Under 30 List, Forbes Magazine included Meghna “Chili” Pramoda in its Education section for her part in helping found SafeTeensOnline. Pramoda was a member of PCCI’s 2022 class of Sachs Summer Scholars interns, a program focused on advancing women in data science. During her term, Pramoda and a partner worked with PCCI data scientists for their research on using Safegraph Visualization in PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass. To view her and her partner’s end of term presentation, go to the 1 hour, 8 minute mark of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3BJ3EZJoE4
In the Forbes article on Pramoda, she is lauded for developing a system to support her peers in owning their online presence, from Forbes:
Founded by Vinny Veeramachaneni in 2017 and now spearheaded by cofounders Meghna “Chili” Pramoda and her sister Siona “Dolly” Pramoda, SafeTeensOnline is a nonprofit that offers English and Spanish language education on digital safety, in addition to courses in coding and ethical hacking. The Pramoda sisters created STOCyberReady, an app that helps teens understand the impact of their digital choices by analyzing their cyber risk and offering educational tips to reduce risk. The app is currently being used in 34 schools with a tentative public release set for 2024. SafeTeensOnline has partnered with the Taco Bell Foundation, T-Mobile, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Read the full article here: https://www.forbes.com/profile/safeteensonline/?sh=2a5c500913a5
PCCI leaders will be presenting at this week’s 2024 Healthcare Analytics Summit (HAS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. In its tenth year, HAS 24 is the premier event showcasing data and analytics’ critical role in tackling some of healthcare’s greatest challenges. Join healthcare’s do-ers, hard workers, believers, game-changers, and impact-makers in Salt Lake City to leverage our collective expertise and experience to Imagine, Innovate, and Impact healthcare.
On Thursday, February 29 at the 9:10 a.m. to 10 a.m. breakout session, PCCI’s Yolande Pengetnze, MD, Vice President, Clinical Leadership and Parkland Health’s Teresita Oaks, Director, Community Health Programs will present information on Parkland’s groundbreaking pediatric asthma program.
Program overview
“AI-DRIVEN OUTREACH REDUCES HEALTH INEQUITIES AND IMPROVES ASTHMA CONTROL”
Asthma prevalence is surging, especially among children, with one in 12 children in the U.S. having asthma. Racial/ethnic disparities are concerning, as Black and Hispanic children experience higher asthma hospitalization rates than white children.
PCCI and Parkland Health leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce inequities for low-income pediatric patients with asthma. Analyzing diverse data sets, teams identified those at risk for asthma-related emergency department visits (ED) and hospitalizations. Collaborating with interdisciplinary community coalitions, they launched interventions: community outreach, asthma screening and referrals, digital outreach, home visits, and risk-driven clinical support. The interventions impacted thousands of patients and improved outcomes – home visits improved asthma symptom control by 26%, and digital patient engagement reduced ED visits for lower-asthma-related issues by 36%.
At the 10:20 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. breakout session, PCCI’s CEO, Steve Miff, PhD, joins a panel of experts to discuss how to bridge the gap of healthcare disparities.
Program Overview
FROM INTENT TO IMPACT: USING DATA TO DECREASE CLINICAL DISPARITIES AND CREATE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
The economic burden of healthcare disparities in the United States is nearing $1 trillion and negatively affects millions of lives. However, there is a path forward, using data and analytics to understand the affected patient populations and the root causes of the issues.
Join this session to gain insights from a panel of industry experts. Learn how they have connected the community to the issue to improve overall health, created clinically focused equity platform and partnership, built a cohort of equity-focused partners, and more. This session will be particularly impactful if you lead quality, clinical improvements, or data science efforts.
For more information about the programs at HAS, go to: https://hasummit.com/agenda/