“Health informatics has the same potential to find game-changing medical treatments by sifting through patient data as the sports-loving computer geek who helped the lowly Oakland A’s build a winning baseball team in “Moneyball,” the Boston Herald reports.
“Medical Moneyball” is in play at Boston Children’s Hospital, the newspaper reports, where Jonathan Bickel. M.D., is the director of clinical research informatics. The physician, who has a master’s degree in informatics, and a team of eight software engineers help researchers analyze patient information to develop predictive models of healthcare, the paper reports.”
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Julie Bird, FierceHealthIT, 20 August 2012
Article (Shah 2012)
