Healthcare Analytics: An Advent to Mitigate the Risks and Impacts of a Pandemic

Kumar, Shubham

Healthcare analytics is a broad term for a specific facet of analytics which sweeps in a wide sash of the healthcare industry, providing macro- and micro-level insights on patient data, risk scoring for chronic diseases, hospital management, optimizing costs, expediting diagnosis and so on. An efficacious way of implementing healthcare analytics on this sector is to combine predictive analysis, data visualization tools and business suites to get valuable information that can both deliver actionable insights to support decisions, as well as reduce variations to optimize utilization. In order to device a more potent approach to prepare for the next pandemic, the clinical data has to be improved which would provide more granulated information to augment treatment effectiveness and success rate. Confirmatory data analysis combined with predictive modeling can be used to furnish unexpected gaps in terms of getting the required clinical data, which is vital for the success of this approach. The healthcare analytics domain has got the potential to monitor the health of the masses to identify disease trends and can provided enhanced health strategies based on demographics, geography and socio-economics. Hence, healthcare analytics is indeed an advent to counter the imminent threats of outbreaks such as epidemics and pandemics provided it gets the necessary course of action to fulfill its grail.