IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare

'The IBM corporation submitted in October, 2011 the new software for the health care industry designed to help suppliers and payers of medical services with improvement of service of patients and expense reduction. The new offer of the software uses content analysis methods which were applied in IBM Watson technology.'

Seton Healthcare Family is the first client who implemented and using technology which received the name IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare. This solution will allow the organizations of health care to take important clinical information from enormous arrays of medical these patients better to analyze last, to understand the presents and to predict future results.

Having integrated IBM Watson technology with offers of industry solutions, Seton intends to apply a new solution to the analysis of content and the predictive analysis for identification of basic reasons of repeated hospitalization and search of ways of decrease in preventable repeated visits of hospitals by patients.

According to the Medical magazine of New England (The New England Journal of Medicine), every fifth patient suffers from preventable repeated hospitalization for which 17.4 billion dollars from 102.6 billion dollars of the current budget of the federal program of preferential health insurance of Medicare are spent. Since 2012, hospitals will be fined for high rates of repeated hospitalization by reduction of payments on a covering of expenses.

"The solution IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is used by the same type of data processing in natural human language, as well as IBM Watson, allowing us to apply our unstructured information more effectively and in a new way as it was not possible earlier — Charles J. Barnett emphasized (Charles J. Barnett), president and chief executive officer of Seton Healthcare Family, owner of an honorary title of Academy Health Fellow (FACHE). — Thanks to IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare we can gain a complex impression of important clinical and operational data for adoption of more informed solutions. In particular, revealing using the predictive analysis of potential candidates on repeated hospitalization, we can reduce number of expensive preventable repeated hospitalization, lower mortality percentage and, finally, improve quality of life of our patients".

Most the organizations of health care literally sink in amounts of data, however extraction from this information of knowledge, exact, applicable in practice, represents for them very difficult task. Really, more than 80% of data which these organizations have are unstructured. In health care such data are presented in the form of records of doctors, registration forms, reports of compensation payments, any documents and many other, and volumes of these unstructured data double each five years. Unlike the data ready to machining, this content is deprived of structure, is difficult for the medical enterprises in terms of the business analysis, and therefore it, often just is not used. As a result, millions of medical records of patients are often unavailable in the isolated storages of clinical data. This content contains valuable information, however historically it developed so that there is no easy way of its analysis.

The solution IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare allows doctors and other workers of health sector to go beyond traditional search capabilities and the analysis of unstructured data. They can improve diagnostics and treatment due to extraction from this content of the exact medical facts and understanding of the interrelations hidden in enormous volumes of clinical and operational data. The solution of IBM will quickly transform "crude" information to the important knowledge necessary for the organizations of health care, by means of identification of trends, the general schemes and deviations, and forecasting of probability of effects. The organizations can gain this knowledge in read minutes now, but not in weeks or months at best. As a result, workers of health care can find more effective ways of service of high-risk patients and develop new models for reimbursement of expenses for the qualified medical care.

IBM proposes a new solution to personnel and heads several methods of interaction with the analyzed information, including search, studying, the profound analysis, monitoring and preparation of the reporting. The solution provides a set of the checked technologies which meet strict standards and the requirements of medical community. This software is also compatible to core industry infrastructure of IBM Health Integration Framework, and it means that the organizations of health care can benefit more by the existing investments into information systems, such as data warehouses, tools of the business analysis, management tool basic data and other similar solutions.

IBM offers new services of the analysis of content and forecasting through the initiatives to Business Analytics and Optimization (The business analysis and Optimization). These initiatives include Competence Center (Center of Competence) for solutions on text analysis based on architecture of UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture). This Competence Center relies on resources of services IBM Global Services, IBM Software Lab Services and also on the IBM jStart Emerging Technologies command.

The solution IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is optimized for accomplishment on the server IBM Power Systems systems which are developed for support of the high-performance and complex analysis of the structured and unstructured data. Constructed on the basis of processor IBM POWER7 technology, the IBM Power Systems systems are available in the different price ranges, can be adapted for specific applications and are quickly unrolled in the most different circles of clients, always providing the leading performance, simplicity of management and efficiency.

• More detailed information on the solution IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare can be obtained on the http://www.ibm.com/software/ecm/content-analytics/predictive/healthcare.html Web page