The hospital will accumulate the patient's credit card information and will be able to tell who gets sick

ByAlex Proimos

Based on two factors that seemingly unrelated to "credit card information" and "sickness", a project to derive the risk of a patient's illness is progressing, and this effort is described as business information magazineBloomberg BusinessweekIt introduces.

Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick - Businessweek
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Carolinas HealthCareIs one of the largest medical centers in North Carolina and South Carolina. In this case, an attempt to "view patient's credit card information on the hospital side" may be started soon.

Carolinas HealthCare operates large and small-sized various medical centers such as hospitals, senior citizens' homes, doctor's offices, surgical centers, etc. It is Carolinas HealthCare that one of the research institutes here is that before a person becomes sick, In order to be able to take measures, we are designing and developing algorithms to gather about 2 million consumer data and to identify those who are likely to get sick.

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Currently Carolinas HealthCare System utilizes credit card purchase history data and proprietary forecasting model to derive a patient's risk score. In the past two years, he has distributed hazardous scores to doctors and nurses many times and has been contacting high-risk patients and encouraging them to take medical treatment before getting sick.

Making a prediction model that can utilize big data to bring out the health of individual residents is the target point of this plan, said that Michael Dulin, Carolinas HealthCare, chief officer of analysis theory and treatment outcome department Mr. He says, "If there are patients in asthma, for example, consider the patient's history of asthma medicine purchase history, tobacco purchase history, and how high the pollen population lives and the probability that emergency treatment will be needed We are aiming for a system that will evaluate "the final form of the system is also revealed.


For this research Carolinas HealthCare purchases purchase history at shops and purchase history using credit cards from information brokers. "These personal consumption data will help the doctor to know the full picture of the patient in detail rather than palpating the patient," Dulin said. However, some experts point out that relationships between physicians and patients may become bad as medical practices rely on data analysis.

Also, Carolinas HealthCare uses information brokers to gather patient information, but it is hardly known where to get those information, so what kind of information is provided specifically by the broker It is unknown whether it is. Also known as a leading information brokerAcxiomYaLexisNexisComment that there is no fact that it provides information to the system developed by Carolinas HealthCare.