Academic medical center Duke Health is turning to predictive analytics tools from Trilliant Health to make its decision-making more precise to meet the needs of patient communities.
In early August, Trilliant Health announced its collaboration with Duke Health, which aims to better understand the challenges of its patient population in North Carolina, according to Stephen Blackwelder, Ph.D., the health system’s associate vice president of strategic analytics and consumer insights.
“Duke Health is harnessing the power of analytics and predictive modeling to better understand and address the complex health challenges facing North Carolina’s growing communities,” Blackwelder said. “By examining factors such as access to care, transportation barriers, food insecurity, housing instability and environmental risks, Duke Health aims to uncover root causes and design targeted interventions that promote health equity.”
To achieve health equity, society must remove poverty, discrimination and the factors that result from them, including lack of access to quality education, housing and healthcare, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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