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• Analytics & the Future of Healthcare: Science of Better Podcast

  Febraury 2012
  By Atanu Basu with host Barry List

  Whether you call it the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, the law enacted in 2010 has generated strong debate about healthcare in America and the need to balance volume (healthcare providers billing by the number of services provided) with value (a results-based approach tying payment to better health). In this podcast, Atanu Basu, the founder and CEO of analytics software company Ayata, discusses an article on the special role of analytics in healthcare that he co-wrote with Pete Horner in the current, special issue of Analytics Magazine. This issue focuses entirely on the many facets of analytics and healthcare.

   

• Analytics & the Future of Healthcare: Editorial Article

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  January-Febraury 2012
  By Peter Horner and Atanu Basu

  Healthcare will be a hot topic during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama nearly two years ago is attacked or defended by the respective candidates and their surrogates. However, no matter who wins the debate or the White House this year, the U.S. healthcare system will be reformed, and more likely transformed, in the near future, and analytics is certain to play a leading role.