Health IT systems and services provider CPSI announced a collaboration with IBM to use predictive analytics to examine readmission risk.
The new partnership, which includes TruBridge, CPSI's wholly owned subsidiary, will use IBM's SPSS Modeler to aggregate and analyze data from hospitals to provide predictive analysis of the patient population's readmission risk factors. Such a tool would enable healthcare providers to preemptively address care concerns and risk factors before discharging the patients, which in turn can reduce the risk of readmission.
Ten hospitals will pilot the data aggregation platform.
"Our collaboration with IBM gives us the tools necessary to leverage big data aggregated and curated from across our client base," said Boyd Douglas, president and CEO of CPSI. "The opportunities to manage population health and ultimately improve patient outcomes based on the use of predictive analytics are enormous."
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