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DAY 1, Monday, October 30, 2017

All Sessions will Take Place in Room 1E13, Located in Hall 1E

Exhibit Hall Hours:
Monday 8:00am-7:00pm and Tuesday 8:00am- 3:30pm

8:00-8:30am • Room: Hall 1E

Registration


8:00-8:30am • Room: Exhibit Hall

Networking over Coffee


8:30-8:35am

Conference Founder Remarks

Eric Siegel
Founding Chair
Predictive Analytics World

8:35-8:50am

Conference Chair Welcome

Jeff Deal
Conference Chair
Predictive Analytics World Heathcare

8:50-9:45am

Keynote
Digital Medicine: Returning Patients to the Center of Healthcare

Specialization in medicine has yielded impressive technical results. Consequently, we organize medical research, treatment, regulation, and payment in silos. In part because of this approach, real-world effectiveness has lagged. In approximately 1/2 of cases, patients are unable to benefit from prescribed therapies due to what psychologists categorize as a systematic and predictable cognitive error. Historically, physicians have been unable to diagnose and treat this problem.

19th century physicians had few efficacious treatments to offer their patients, but each was known as an individual and treated holistically. One paradox of the mobile revolution is that by connecting the silos our smartphones are re-personalizing medicine, putting the individual back at the center of medicine, thereby improving clinical outcomes. Recent evidence will be presented demonstrating how Digital Medicines are bringing holistic, effective healthcare to everyone everywhere.

Dr. George Savage
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Proteus Digital Health

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9:45-10:30am • Room: Exhibit Hall

Exhibits & Morning Coffee Break


10:30-11:15am

Risk Modeling
Case Study: OSF Healthcare System
The Tale of Two Models: Identifying High Risk Patients in an Ambulatory Setting

To be relevant, models must be useful. To be useful they must provide actionable intelligence to end users. This session will highlight two models answering similar questions differently, given their intended audiences and uses. To provide a single risk stratification for primary care, the Advanced Analytics team at OSF Healthcare developed and deployed our Patient Utilization Model. Simultaneously the Advanced Analytics team built a specialized cost model for our CMS ACO patient population to assist our complex care management organization. This session will highlight the utility of each model and address how each provides value.

Chris Franciskovich
Senior Data Scientist
OSF Healthcare

Jason Weinberg
Statistician
OSF Healthcare

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11:20am-12:05pm

Oncology Analytics
Case Study: QuintilesIMS
Using Deep Learning to Identify the Key Triggers of Initiating Patient First Line Treatment: An Oncology Case Study

Recent breakthrough in deep learning technology has demonstrated superior model performance and witnessed various applications. In oncology patient predictive studies, the medical data present many challenges such as high dimensionality, sparsity, high variability and look alike patient profiles etc., which cause poor model performance. Traditional models also need extensive clinical knowledge to manually design predictors. We construct a deep and wide neural networks model to carry out end-to-end learning. The novel model automatically identifies the key triggers of initiating first line treatment without the need of hand designing features. It also shows consistent accuracy improvement over benchmark methods.

Yilian Yuan
VP Advanced Analytics
QuintilesIMS

Yunglong Wang
Manager, Advanced Analytics
QuintilesIMS

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12:05-1:35pm • Room: Exhibit Hall

Lunch


1:35-2:30pm

Special Plenary Session
Thinking Hard and Soft: The Clash of Data Science, AI, and Human Expertise

In the Thinking Wars, "Soft" is still on top. But for how long? Human Expertise — embattled everywhere by the machine rivals it spawned -- is still the only thing that can create something completely new. Yet, human judgment is painfully slow, inconsistent, and sometimes no more accurate than chance. The "hard" discipline of Data Science is fast, consistent, and (often) more accurate. DS takes a story and renders it into a data point; then, from myriad such points, induces valuable general lessons -- without bias, distraction, or preconceived notions. But only if essential details are in the stories. Anything not there is a shock, and inconceivable. A rival "hard" thinker, AI, can use knowledge encoded ahead of time; it doesn't have to learn everything anew via examples. But such expertise is astonishingly mercurial; the act of isolating it to encode it may even harm it! And the base of "common sense" needed to build on is surprisingly vast. Thus, for decades, Artificial Intelligence has fallen laughably short of its hype. Until all of a sudden... it hasn't. Now, some world-class thinkers (of the "soft" kind) are alarmed. Has a tipping point been reached? Dr. Elder will compare the strengths and weaknesses of these 3 tribes of thought, and clarify the state of their clash.

Dr. John Elder
Founder & Chair
Elder Research, Inc.

2:40-3:00pm

Quality Evaluation
Case Study: Public Health Data
Evaluating the Quality of State's Healthcare Using Big Data Analytics

In this talk, BDA are applied to healthcare data that is collected from multiple state-level sources to gain quality insights and apprehend best practices of the field (using new healthcare-specific data tools). The US states are unceasingly pursuing potential improvements to their healthcare's Quality of Service. Recent changes in data sharing provisions, such as the disposition of the recent Affordable Health Care Act (ACA), changed the rules of the game. This multidisciplinary talk examines historical health data from all over the country, assesses the medical QoS for multiple US states using a new healthcare-specific analytical infrastructure, and provides data-driven results.

Feras Batarseh
Research Assistant Professor
George Mason University - George Washington University

3:05-3:25pm

Healthcare Resource Planning
Machine Learning for Health Care Fraud Detection

The United States spends more than $3 trillion or 18% of GDP on an annual basis on health care. According to FBI, the amount of this spending lost due to fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) ranged between $90B and $330B! This talk will offer practical advice on how to effectively organize and join various health care data such as claim and clinical data, how to set-up the problem, and how to design an effective machine learning solution to identify FWA leads and expedite investigator review using intuitive visualization to understand the risk factors contributing to those leads.

Aleksander Lazarevic
Senior Director
Aetna

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3:25-3:55pm • Room: Exhibit Hall

Exhibits & Afternoon Coffee Break


3:55-4:40pm

Assessing Risk of Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs
Case Study: University of Virginia Medical Center
Predicting Patient Risk of Acquiring Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs from the Environment

The University of Virginia Health System has sustained a multi-year low frequency transmission of antibiotic resistant environmental organisms with a unique, common genetic signature. In order to identify patients at greater risk of infection and describe the clinical risk factors for acquisition we developed and deployed a patient risk model with an AUC 0.73. Additionally, we used this risk model to examine the risk of patient acquisition of antibiotic resistant organisms from the environment using a treatment effects model.

John Ainsworth
Senior Data Scientist
UVA Medical Center

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4:45-5:30pm

Influencing Behavior
Creating Engaging Patient Journeys with Persuasion Modeling

Many applications of predictive analytics in healthcare identify a pool of patients at high risk of a preventable poor health outcome, and take steps to engage those individuals to lower their risk. However, less work has been done to identify the messages, frequency, and channels that are most effective at influencing those individuals' behavior. These factors can strongly shape the efficacy of health-related outreach and the costs associated with these programs.

We will present a framework, originally developed by political campaigns to engage voters, to test several messaging strategies, identify which individuals are moved by each health-related message and mode of outreach, and ultimately construct predictive models that enable providers, payers, and community groups effectively engage with each patient. Through this individual-centered persuasion approach, healthcare organizations can focus high touch messaging, such as in-person visits or multiple live phone calls, on those who require it to change their behavior, while reaching a broader, more easily "nudged" population with lower-touch, lower-cost tools such as push notifications and e-mail.

Erek Dyskant
Co-founder and VP of Impact
BlueLabs

5:30-7:00pm • Room: Exhibit Hall

Networking Reception

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7:00pm • Meet at Registration

Dinner with Strangers

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DAY 2, Tuesday, October 31, 2017

8:00-9:00am • Room: Hall 1E

Registration


8:00-9:00am • Room: Exhibit Hall

Networking over Coffee


9:00-9:05am

Conference Chair Welcome

Jeff Deal
Conference Chair
Predictive Analytics World Heathcare

9:05-10:00am

Keynote
Healthcare Analytics: Why is this so expensive and hard? And what are we getting for our money?

Health care continues to lag other industries in the use of data and analytics. Banking and retail have made serious inroads into customer service and knowledge discovery. Why is healthcare lagging? Even looking at the transactional space of health care encounters, we lag other industries that use transactional data such as banking and retail. We'll examine this along with how health care is different and how that affects the interpretation and business application of health care analytics. We'll look at some real-world examples including one of the hardest problems in this space---clinically meaningful patient risk adjustment.

Dr. Pamela Peele
Chief Analytics Officer
UPMC Health Plan & UMPC Enterprises

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10:00-10:45am

Drug Development Analytics
Case Study: Merck
Predicting Survival in Lung Cancer Based on Early Clinical Readouts using Modeling of Literature Data

Cancer care has been brimming with the promise of new therapies, especially those in immuno oncology. This is really exciting and hopeful time for patients but, at the same time, it is particularly important to understand who can benefit from these treatments. In this talk, we present the case study of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for how one can leverage early readouts in a clinical trial to understand if a treatment is having a potential survival benefit as compared to standard of care. We believe that approaches like that can strengthen the decision making in a rapidly evolving field and ultimately benefit patients by giving them early access to best possibe cancer care.

Having accurate, unbiased prognosis information can help patients and providers make better decisions about what course of treatment to take. Using a comprehensive dataset of all colorectal cancer patients in California, we generate predictive models that estimate short-term and medium-term survival probabilities for patients based on their clinical and demographic information. This talk will discuss how the model was developed, how it improves on previous models, how it should be used, and the impact on the approach to treatment of colorectal cancer patients.

Anna Kondic
Executive Director, Predictive Economic Modeling
Merck

10:45-11:15am • Room: Exhibit Hall

Exhibits & Morning Coffee Break


11:15am-12:00pm

Industry Update
State of Precision Medicine: Where it is Headed and How to Discern the Signal from the Noise

Precision medicine is gaining momentum throughout the healthcare industry. This presentation will examine current adoption rates of precision medicine solutions across the United States, based on HIMSS Analytics research from the past two years. Additionally, we will look at key trends in this burgeoning field, current technology usage and predictions on the future of precision medicine.

Despite the potential it offers, precision medicine has not been widely adopted across the U.S. healthcare market. This research highlights barriers to entry (limited funds, technology, and expertise); high levels of reliance upon outside entities; and ways to stay ahead of the curve.

Brendan Fitzgerald
Director of Research
HIMSS Analytics

Matt Schuchardt
Director of Business Development and Innovation
HIMSS Analytics

12:00-1:25pm • Room: Exhibit Hall

Lunch


1:25-2:10pm

Keynote
State of the Data Science in Healthcare

Predictive analytics has only recently seen interest or adoption in health care. This is due not only to a lack of demand pull but also the lack of data and tools needed to use predictive analytic techniques in the healthcare setting. New technologies and the consumer retail revolution change the equation, with more and different kinds of data and the ability to consume and analyze. As a result, we are beginning to see predictive analytics applied to health care on a large scale. This presentation shall look back at use of data analytics in health and care, understand some of the advanced uses available today, and look forward to where we are going.

Dr. Ken Yale, DDS, JD
Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer
Delta Dental of California

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2:10-3:00pm

Expert Panel
Is there an "Easy Button" for Healthcare Analytics?

Applying analytics in the business environment has moved beyond adolescence to the early adult stage. Most business executives view predictive analytics as something they have to have to stay competitive, rather than something they'd like to have -- the predominant attitude of just a few years ago. However, sustained ROI from analytics remains elusive for many healthcare organizations, especially as they struggle with the high cost of finding and keeping analytic talent. Proliferating healthcare analytics software companies promise easy and affordable results, but is the easy solution really available now or within our reach? Join our expert panel as we consider the state of healthcare analytics and how organizations are maximizing "bang for their buck", whether from buying services, buying software, building an in-house service, or something in between.

Moderator:
Jeff Deal
Founder and Chair,
Elder Research, Inc.

Panelists:
Dr. Ken Yale, JD, DDS
Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer
Delta Dental of California

Dr. Pamela Peele
Chief Analytics Officer
UPMC Health Plan & UPMC Enterprises

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3:00-3:30pm • Room: Exhibit Hall

Exhibits & Afternoon Coffee Break


3:30-4:15pm

Analytics for Emergency Response
Case Study: Disease Outbreak in New York City
Legionnaires' Disease in New York City: Analytics of the Built Environment for Emergency Services

Predictive analytics has proven to be a highly useful tool in the public sector, but what happens when an emergency strikes and we have to build an entire analytics infrastructure from scratch? In this case study the NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) will walk you through how the City of New York built a system to collect, monitor, and predict the presence of potentially disease-carrying cooling towers among New York\'s one-million plus buildings in less than a week.

Simon Rimmele
Associate, Analytics
NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics


4:15-5:00pm

Building an Analytics Team
Case Study: OSF Healthcare System
The Benefits and Challenges of Building an In-House Data Science Team

Defining a healthcare data science strategy can be daunting. Do you build a team or buy services as needed? Where do you find and validate talent? Can an internal team really produce enough value to make it worth the effort and cost? What do you need in place to get started? At OSF Healthcare, we built our Advanced Analytics team, comprised of data scientists and statisticians, more than three years ago and have learned a lot along the way. In this candid session, we'll share what we've learned by highlighting some of our key projects' wins and lessons.

Juli Plack
Vice President of Information Delivery
OSF Healthcare System

Chris Franciskovich
Senior Data Scientist
OSF Healthcare System


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