Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare

Actionable Intelligence for Healthcare cuts through the hype and misconceptions regarding healthcare data analytics, provides a realistic assessment of the state of healthcare data analytics today, and offers an insightful forecast of both the near-term and longer-term development in the field. By considering the perspectives, desires and concerns of multiple stakeholders across the healthcare sector, the book paints a holistic and realistic picture of the promise and perils of health care big data analytics. Specific applications are explored in healthcare research, clinical care, population health and care delivery.

Dr. Jay Liebowitz is the DiSanto Visiting Chair in Applied Business and Finance at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He previously served as the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Prior to UMUC, Dr. Liebowitz was a full professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He was ranked one of the top 10 knowledge management researchers/practitioners out of 11,000 worldwide. Dr. Liebowitz is the founding editor-in-chief of Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, which is ranked as a top-tier journal worldwide.

Amanda Dawson holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and is the Director of Research at Select Medical where she oversees clinical research and quality improvement initiatives at more than 100 nation-wide long-term acute care hospitals. Prior to joining Select Medical, she was a research fellow in biomedicine at Albert Einstein Hospital’s Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and completed her post-doctoral training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Over the past decade, she has published numerous articles on identifying patient subpopulations and characterizing clinical practice patterns and patient outcomes over time.