What if data could help predict a patient's prognosis, streamline hospital operations, or optimize human resources in medicine' A book fresh off the shelves, 'The Analytics Edge in Healthcare,' shows that this is already happening, and demonstrates how to scale it. Authored by Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT's vice provost for open learning, along with two of Bertsimas' former students ' Agni Orfanoudaki PhD '21, associate professor of operations management at University of Oxford's Said Business School, and Holly Wiberg PhD '22, assistant professor of public policy and operations research at Carnegie Mellon University ' the book provides a practical introduction to the field of health care analytics. With an emphasis on real-world applications, the first part of the book establishes technical foundations ' spanning machine learning and optimization ' while the second part of the book presents integrated case studies that cover various clinical specialties and problem types using...
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