🧠 What is Healthcare Predictive Analytics?
It's the process of analyzing large amounts of historical and real-time health data to identify patterns that can predict future clinical and operational events. It moves healthcare from reacting to problems to proactively preventing them.
How it Works: It uses advanced techniques like Machine Learning (ML) and Statistical Modeling to build algorithms. You feed the model patient records, lab results, genetic information, and more, and it learns to calculate the probability of a future event.
Key Predictions:
Clinical: Who is at high risk of developing a chronic disease? Which patient might need critical care in the next few hours?
Operational: How many beds will be needed next week? Which patient is most likely to miss their appointment?