Healthcare Innovation June 13, 2022
Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, is working with real-world data and analytics company COTA Inc. to better understand how certain patient demographics, such as Zip code, race/ethnicity, or other socio-economic factors, might contribute to disparities in patient outcomes.
In a recent interview with Healthcare Innovation, C.K. Wang, M.D., chief medical officer at COTA, described the company’s Real-World Analytics platform and its work with 11-hospital Baptist Health South Florida and other health systems to address disparities.
Wang described how COTA was founded about 10 years ago by a group of doctors and data scientists who were seeking to answer questions about their patient populations that they couldn’t through traditional sources of data. “These were questions that pertain...