What’s the most effective way to predict which patients will be hospitalized in the coming year? The Heritage Provider Network, a managed care group in California, hopes to answer this question through its sponsorship of the Heritage Health Prize, a $3 million X Prize-like competition for health care. The contest invites participants to develop a prediction algorithm to identify patients who will spend time in the ...
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