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Improving Disease Management

Healthcare providers—including hospitals, clinics, and individual physicians—use both clinical expertise and the best available external evidence to guide treatment recommendations.

SPSS solutions support disease management by identifying the treatment protocols that lead to favorable outcomes. With SPSS solutions, providers can analyze all data sources, including patient histories and billing claims—even physicians’ textual notes. A number of powerful analytical techniques identify patterns in this data. When analysis is complete, providers receive suggested optimal sequences of visits/events and treatment steps that lead to improved patient care.

A study done at London’s St. George’s Hospital NHS Trust used software from SPSS to evaluate more than 14,000 admissions to the hospital during a nine-year period. It found that there was a higher mortality risk when certain types of patients were moved out of intensive care units rather than being kept there longer. This helped the hospital choose the most effective treatment options for its patients and provided guidelines to other hospitals with similar patient populations.

SPSS solutions also help providers increase their awareness of the relevant evidence and evaluate the strength of that evidence so that, in consultation with the patient, they can choose the most appropriate and effective treatments and therapies.

Our solutions give payer organizations such as government agencies and private insurers the tools to identify patterns in patient care that signal the “mainstreaming” of new treatments and therapies. In this way, they can determine which therapeutic approaches improve patient outcomes and minimize the need for expensive emergency interventions.

Read white papers and customer stories describing how SPSS solutions help healthcare organizations.