IDG Contributor Network: Predictive modeling and associated prescriptive (re)actions in healthcare

In the context of healthcare, the analogy of a pinball machine gives one pause. The very juxtaposition is arresting—and to be certain, only one is a game.Nonetheless, it can be useful to leverage (yet not tilt) the iconic American pinball machine in the discussion of healthcare predictive analytics, as it is a tangible example of a self-contained system, subject to outside forces, in which millions of independent and interdependent actions occur. These instances combine to form iterative c