Health IT Analytics September 17, 2020
Jessica Kent

A risk index leverages machine learning and big data to identify and alert people most at risk of exposure to COVID-19.

Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) and Parkland Health and Hospital System have developed a risk index that generates a COVID-19 risk score for each patient using machine learning and big data.

The Proximity Risk Index leverages geo-mapping and hot-spotting technology to produce a dynamic personal risk score based on a person’s proximity to other confirmed, active COVID-19 cases. To help determine which patients it should reach out to proactively, Parkland created three initiatives using the index to assess individuals’ needs.

“The work PCCI does to connect providers with other community services to improve patients’ social determinants of health...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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