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Rush University Medical Center reaps higher CMS star ratings, cost savings by building its own predictive analytics framework

Healthcare IT News: Predictive analytics represent a potentially powerful tool for hospitals, as they can be used to improve clinical quality and streamline operations to reduce expenses. Academic medical centers are no exception, and one in particular, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, has built its own proprietary predictive analytics framework -- which it says has not only improved costs but has boosted its star ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Over the past eight months or so, Rush has embarked on a project to harness big data, whereby information from electronic health records and other systems can go into what Chief Analytics Officer Bala Hota, MD, calls a “single source of truth” -- essentially a data lake.

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