In A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare, Dwight McNeill shows healthcare analysts and decision-makers exactly how to adapt and apply the best analytics techniques from retail, finance, politics, and sports. McNeill describes each method in depth, presenting numerous case studies that show how these approaches have been deployed and the results that have been achieved. Most important, he explains how these methods can be successfully adapted to the most critical challenges you now face in your healthcare organization. From predictive modeling to social media, this book focuses on innovative techniques with demonstrated effectiveness and direct relevance to healthcare. You’ll discover powerful new ways to manage population health; improve patient activation, support, and experience of care; focus on health outcomes; measure what matters for team performance; make information more actionable; and build more customer-centric organizations.

DWIGHT MCNEILL (Little Compton, RI), President of WayPoint Health, consults with organizations on healthcare analytics to improve business decision making, engage customers/patients to produce health, and optimize healthcare financing and delivery. He is guest lecturer at Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School; and Lead Faculty member at the International Institute for Analytics’ Health Care & Life Sciences Analytics Research Council. He is author of The Value of Building Sustainable Health Care Systems: Capturing the Benefits of Health Plan Transformation and Building Organizational Capacity: A Cornerstone of Health System Reform.

1. Introduction