Kevin Volpp and Dan Polsky Lead New Big Data Initiative to Improve Health in Pennsylvania
Sources: Penn Medicine News, LDI News, February 23, 2016
Dan Polsky of LDI and Kevin Volpp of CHIBE will lead a four-year project to develop and test algorithms aimed at predicting adverse health events in real time. The project, Smarter Big Data for a Healthy Pennsylvania: Changing the Paradigm of Healthcare is funded by the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) program, and will examine the use of the algorithms in the hospital, at home, and in the community.