{"id":35936,"date":"2018-11-13T19:33:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/cyft-the-promise-of-machine-learning-to-deliver-health-care-over-sick-care\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T19:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:33:33","slug":"cyft-the-promise-of-machine-learning-to-deliver-health-care-over-sick-care","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/cyft-the-promise-of-machine-learning-to-deliver-health-care-over-sick-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyft: The Promise of Machine Learning to Deliver Health Care Over Sick Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cyft Care Management Quick Explainer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CyHW_zeDtLA?start=106&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Evolving State of the US Healthcare System\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US healthcare system is slowly shifting the way it delivers care from reactive to proactive, placing greater emphasis on primary care, chronic disease prevention, and averting hospital readmissions. This represents a <em>significant <\/em>paradigm shift. Under traditional fee-for-service payment schemes, hospitals were reimbursed for each service provided, with higher rates attributed to acute hospitalizations and procedures, without regard for patient outcomes. Now, under value-based healthcare arrangements, health systems work with fixed budgets and are incentivized to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital. This means that for the first time, healthcare organizations are finally held financially accountable for the quality of care they deliver.<\/p>\n<p>In order for this new arrangement to be successful though, healthcare systems need new tools to identify patients at high risk for developing disease and other adverse events\u2014only then can they deploy the right resources for the right patients at the right time. This information gap has spurred intense competition between data analytics companies, seeking to answer questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which patients are most likely to return to the hospital after discharge?<\/li>\n<li>Which patients are most likely to come into the emergency department for low blood sugar or worsening heart failure?<\/li>\n<li>Which patients are at high risk for falling in home and fracturing their hip?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of these, Cyft stands out for its ability to synthesize several unique data sources in order to improve patient care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cyft: Where Machine Learning Meets Patient Care <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cyft is a cloud-based predictive analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes multiple streams of historical data in order to predict the likelihood of future adverse events. Powered by machine learning algorithms and natural language processing, Cyft considers over 30 different data sources and both structured and unstructured data elements\u2014such as claims data, free text from electronic medical records, call center transcripts, and patient-generated data (from continuous glucose monitors, for example)\u2014to improve care management practices. Its goal is to provide healthcare organizations with real time information to anticipate and prevent adverse events.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, Cyft has focused on partnerships with health plans, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies to drive value and improve outcomes. Last year, Cyft announced a partnership with Joslin Diabetes Center to improve the care of children diagnosed with type I diabetes, the second most common childhood chronic disease after asthma [1]. Cyft has also bolstered its predictive analytics capability by partnering with MedMinder\u2014a company that helps patients manage their complex drug regimens via an electronic pill dispenser\u2014to integrate in-home medication adherence data into its algorithm. The hope is that this will allow for organizations to better prioritize which patients to target with care management resources [2].<\/p>\n<p>In the long term, Cyft is focusing on building credibility among healthcare providers by testing several use cases and publishing its research in high impact journals. Its efforts thus far have been successful: in 2017, Cyft demonstrated value in detecting variation in surgical treatment of young women with breast cancer [3], classifying patient acuity in an inpatient setting [4], and anticipating falls during hospital admissions [5].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking Towards the Future <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Cyft evaluates additional growth opportunities, it should consider partnering with state and federal authorities to help Medicare and Medicaid effectively target interventions, anticipate epidemics, and prevent adverse events. As the largest payers for medical care in the country, collaboration with government agencies could add tremendous value to the company and patients alike.<\/p>\n<p>Cyft should also consider adding additional data into its analytics model, particularly social factors that drive health outcomes such as housing and food instability, access to transportation, and social stressors. Given that social determinants drive a large part of an individual\u2019s health outcomes (40% of health outcomes, whereas medical care only accounts for 10-20%), adding these elements will strengthen their predictive capabilities [6].<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as Cyft grows, it should continue to prioritize data privacy and security. Ultimately, the company must decide the degree to which it will allow patients themselves to control access to, and distribution of, their own data. Patients will also need to give input into how much they want to know about their future outcomes. Without appropriate safeguards, there is highrisk for data misuse and patient harm.<\/p>\n<p>Looking toward the future, there are a few critical considerations for the company:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The more streams of data available, the more powerful Cyft\u2019s predictive analytics will be. Are there any data streams that are off-limits to predict future health (e.g. credit purchase history, genomic sequencing data)? As long as an individual gives permission, does it matter?<\/li>\n<li>Patients that are disengaged with the healthcare system are less likely to appear in hospital training data sets. What are the risks associated with using training data that may exclude the most marginalized populations and how can Cyft mitigate them?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Word Count: 800<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>[1] Trust, C. (2018). Leading Institutions to Focus on Improving Type 1 Diabetes Care with Machine Learning. [online] Prnewswire.com. Available at: https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/leading-institutions-to-focus-on-improving-type-1-diabetes-care-with-machine-learning-300472183.html [Accessed 12 Nov. 2018].<\/p>\n<p>[2] Prnewswire.com. (2018).\u00a0<em>Cyft and MedMinder Partner to Improve Care Management<\/em>. [online] Available at: https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cyft-and-medminder-partner-to-improve-care-management-300512297.html [Accessed 12 Nov. 2018].<\/p>\n<p>[3] Dodgion, C., Lipsitz, S., Decker, M., Hu, Y., Quamme, S., Karcz, A., D&#8217;Avolio, L. and Greenberg, C. (2017). Institutional variation in surgical care for early-stage breast cancer at community hospitals. Journal of Surgical Research, 211, pp.196-205.<\/p>\n<p>[4] Brennan, C., Meng, F., Meterko, M. and D\u2019Avolio, L. (2016). Feasibility of Automating Patient Acuity Measurement Using a Machine Learning Algorithm. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 24(3), pp.419-427.<\/p>\n<p>[5] Shiner, B., Neily, J., Mills, P. and Watts, B. (2016). Identification of Inpatient Falls Using Automated Review of Text-Based Medical Records. Journal of Patient Safety, p.1.<\/p>\n<p>[6] Hood, C., Gennuso, K., Swain, G. and Catlin, B. (2016). County Health Rankings. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 50(2), pp.129-135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyft, a cloud-based predictive analytics platform, is making big bets that it will be able to predict your health in the future, and ultimately improve health outcomes and bring down costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11670,"featured_media":35937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[5073,41,346,2677],"class_list":["post-35936","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care-management","category-healthcare","category-machine-learning","category-predictive-analytics","hck-taxonomy-organization-cyft","hck-taxonomy-industry-health","hck-taxonomy-country-united-states"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/assignment\/rc-tom-challenge-2018\/","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cyft: The Promise of Machine Learning to Deliver Health Care Over Sick Care - 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