Partnership to focus on data exchange, predictive modeling for pediatric patients
Texas-based Children’s Medical Center (CMC) has announced a collaboration with Dallas-based, non-profit research and development firm PCCI on two new projects aimed at improving children’s health using predictive modeling and networking technologies.
The first project targets children with chronic asthma, a significant cause of pediatric hospital readmissions at CMC.
The collaborators are using predictive analytics models to assess key EMR data in real time and identify asthmatic children with higher risk factors, allowing healthcare and social services providers to proactively address treatments and triggers in a manner responsive to patient and family needs.
In the other project, CMC and PCCI are developing a virtual network of information exchange between pediatric healthcare and social services providers. The network will allow each person in an individual child’s support system to coordinate services with other providers, and pursue team-based approaches to care, according to the announcement.
The two PCCI projects are part of CMC’s efforts to improve pediatric population health and wellness in the region, according to the announcement.