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How Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence is changing Healthcare Careers

Recently, the healthcare industry has been experiencing change from old norms to new

ways of guaranteeing outcomes (Bhavnani et al. 684). The more prominent and current

discussion is around predictive analytics and artificial intelligence integration in healthcare. The

main objective is to enhance the efficacy of clinical support systems and leverage technology to

reduce medical costs, improve outcomes, reduce medical malpractices, amongst others (Higdon

240). For clinical decision support systems, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health

Information Technology (ONCHIT) defines it as “providing clinicians, staff, patients or other

individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at

appropriate times, to enhance health and health care,” (Higdon 239). These are the systems, laws,

methodologies, and processes that seek to enhance the decision-making in the clinical workflow.

Mainly, these work to enhance overall productivity at a patient-specific level for healthcare

professionals (Bhavnani et al. 685). Healthcare careers are being transformed from their

traditional norms using the power of big-data analytics.

Predictive analytics can be argued from the perspective of a pattern that healthcare

professionals identify and then develop actions to modify the outcomes by manipulating big data.

For example, health care practitioners might study all inpatient gallbladder removal surgeries and

notice patients that were discharged after X days had a readmission rate of 20% but patients who

stayed X + 1 days, had a 5% readmission rate. Looking at the pattern, the patients need to stay

one day longer to avoid the readmissions. Here, healthcare practitioners are not looking at a
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particular patient but observing the patterns from a group of patients to draw inferences onto the

large population (Higdon 243). A more recent development is the integration of healthcare

artificial intelligence algorithms to enhance machine learning and evidence-based decision

making by health practitioners.

In order for healthcare practitioners to achieve technology-based patient-centered

services, they need to incorporate predictive analytics. The nature of service delivery in the

healthcare sector of the 21st-century advocates for tenets of value, quality, and outcomes

(Raghupathi et al. 10). In this context, it is imperative that healthcare practitioners find cost-

effective and innovative ways that enhance “smart” health care supported by technology in order

to deliver patient-centered services within hospitals and also outside hospital walls (Higdon 241).

Predictive technologies can assist health practitioners to achieve better value, quality, and

outcomes in patient-centered services. Such value-added advantages depend on the enhancement

of human resources capital in the healthcare sector. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is gaining a

foothold in providing physicians with right treatment directions other than simple medical

hunches (Fogel and Joseph 5).

The current system of determining medical distribution services to certain patient

demographics is to utilize research-based normal distribution and infer the findings to the larger

population (Fogel and Joseph 10). However, applying normal distribution statistics to every

individual patient is unrealistic and inaccurate. It is potentially dangerous and wasteful to apply

the general treatment that will not specifically work for an individual. Predictive analytics in

healthcare provides an avenue for physicians to achieve better diagnosis that is laser targeted at

specific treatments for specific individuals. In this context, predictive analytics will, therefore,

lead to fewer resources used and better outcomes both for the hospital and for the patient.
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Predictive analytics provides a whole new approach in the approach of healthcare careers (Fogel

and Joseph 12). Now, healthcare practitioners will have to acquire and nurture information

technology skills in big data analytics. It is not enough just to understand how to feed patient

data into the system but how the system works. Since technology is a continuously changing

phenomena, it is the prerogative of individual health practitioners to provide knowledge that will

continuously improve the system. In the age of big data analytics and real-time application,

healthcare practitioners will be able to contribute to research in real-time (Fogel and Joseph 22).

Health practitioners can utilize predictive algorithms to assist them in making an accurate

diagnosis. For instance, if a patient comes to an ER center with chest pain complaints many

physicians do not know whether to hospitalize the patient or release them for home care.

Predictive analytics can assist the physician to answer questions relating to the patient and the

condition of the patient by entering the patient data into a system that is accurate, tested, and

which contains predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence (Abdullah et al. 201). The system

will assess fairly accurately whether it is safe to release the patient for home care. It is important

to note that, the system does not replace a physician's judgment but assist them in making an

accurate decision. In addition, predictive analytics will also assist in public health and preventive

medicine. In many instances, early intervention ameliorates many diseases. In the realm of

genomics, predictive analytics will assist physicians in offering primary care to accurately

identify at-risk patients (Fogel and Joseph 7). In this context, patients will access up-front

knowledge that will assist them to make lifestyle changes which avoid the risks. The benefits to

the patient are two-fold: the patient will save possible costs for future treatment and at present,

patients they will enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Here, the efficacy of physicians' intervention is

enhanced exponentially (Fogel and Joseph 30).

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Artificial intelligence uses sophisticated algorithms to afford learning capacities from

incredibly large volumes of information and data from the healthcare industry. It, therefore,

affords the healthcare industry unprecedented insights but greatly assist the clinical practice.

Most importantly, apart from learning capabilities artificial intelligence affords the competencies

of self-correction which inadvertently improved accuracy based on its own feedback analysis.

Search competencies and capacities enable healthcare practitioners to provide patients with

updated medical information pulled in real-time from and the clinical practices, textbooks, and

journals (Abdullah et al. 201). Being able to make correct calls in health care provision is a

major ingredient for value based healthcare organizations. For instance, it reduces diagnostic and

therapeutic medical errors which are common in clinical practices that depend entirely on human

intervention.

Healthcare services are particularly expensive due to the scarcity of healthcare

practitioners. The cost of providing health care skyrocketing artificial intelligence offer the

alternative of digital nurses in the virtual space. Without human intervention, such systems help

patients to monitor their own conditions and therefore act decisively before a major adverse

effect happens (Abdullah et al. 215). Patients who live far away from healthcare premises can

now afford follow-up treatments and alternatives to doctor visits through the power of artificial

intelligence. In most cases, software and systems that use artificial intelligence collect patient

data prior to doctor visits. It, therefore, makes treatment appointments short and to the point

which is a key ingredient in saving healthcare costs. Furthermore, artificial intelligence helps

healthcare organizations through data analytics to identify hidden and hard to find workflow

inefficiencies, unnecessary patient hospitalization, and mistakes in treatments among others. In

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this context, then big it solutions that artificial intelligence creates is in mundane areas such as

time management, increased healthcare accuracy, and lowering costs.

Healthcare services are particularly expensive due to the scarcity of healthcare

practitioners. The cost of providing health care is skyrocketing and therefore, artificial

intelligence offers the alternative in terms of digital nurses in the virtual space. Without human

intervention, such systems help patients to monitor their own conditions and therefore act

decisively before a major adverse effect happens. Patients who live far away from healthcare

premises can now afford follow-up treatments and alternatives to doctor visits through the power

of artificial intelligence. In most cases, software and systems that use artificial intelligence

collect patient data prior to doctor visits. It, therefore, makes treatment appointments short and to

the point which is a key ingredient in saving healthcare costs.

In conclusion, predictive analytics provides new technology enabled solutions to assist

healthcare practitioners become more efficient in their practice. Now, healthcare practitioners

will have to acquire and nurture information technical skills in big data analytics (Abdullah et al.

216). For physicians, there scope of work has shifted from data entry into support systems to

creating customized solutions for their patients instantly. Certainly, the future of big data

analytics and its constituents demands that healthcare personnel stay abreast with technological

changes. Each healthcare practitioner has a duty to acquire knowledge in tandem with the

changing technologies. Additionally, realtime data analytics and articial intellegence will enable

healthcare practitioners contribute data for research on realtime basis. Therefore, there will be

exponential changes in terms of career changes and development in the healthcare industry.
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