Becker's Healthcare July 14, 2020
Over the past few months, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has used deidentified cellphone, public health and health system data to forecast COVID-19 surge trends nationwide.
The 137-hospital health system’s predictive modeling tools consider the COVID-19 infection rates and cell phone data to track how people travel outside of their communities as well as fixed data points, such as population and healthcare provider availability, to predict where the number of COVID-19 cases is likely to increase and decide where to allocate resources. The model generates outlook for about 75 percent of CommonSpirit’s markets.
The health system had the infrastructure and statistical staff in place to do the modeling ahead of the pandemic. Joseph Colorafi, MD, system vice president of clinical data...
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