Company Offers $3 Million for an Algorithm That Predicts Whether You'll Get Sick 15 Years From Now
HPN Wants Better Predictive Health Care a.drian via Flickr It's almost as if Heritage Provider Network set out to create the perfect PopSci story by mashing up all of our favorite things: clever algorithms, a multi-million dollar intellectual competition, and the future. The California-based health care provider has put up a purse of $3 million for the person or group who can come up with a predictive algorithm that accurately identifies people at risk for hospitalization in the next year, thus encouraging predictive medical measures and reducing unnecessary hospital stays. The prize, officially launching on Monday, aims to reduce the $30 billion that was spent on unnecessary hospital admissions in 2006 (The last year data was available? We're quoting HPN here). To quote HPN further: The winning Team will create a predictive algorithm that can identify patients who are at risk for hospital admissions. Once known, health care providers can develop new...