Healthcare Data Solutions

ACA – Accountable Care Act

July 1, 2012 Clifford Thompson Leave a comment

Reading material from Coursera class

Week 6 – The ACA and access to health care (continued)

Kaiser Foundation (2011). “Summary of New Health Reform Law.” http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8061.pdf.
Department of Health and Human Services (2012). “What’s Changing and When.” http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/. Browse.
Kaiser Foundation (2010). “Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions About Health Insurance Subsidies.” http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7962-02.pdf.
[Optional] Use the Massachusetts Health Connector to “buy” insurance. https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector/ . (Use zip code 02138 and choose the plan you think would be best for you. When you get to the message that “Enrollment is closed”, click “Browse Now” under the heading “Just window shopping?” Note the monthly cost and what is covered, deductible, copay amount, etc. )

Week 6 – The ACA and cost control

See next week’s readings. Can start on them now.

Week 7 – The ACA and cost control (continued)

P. Orszag and E. Emanuel (2010). “Health Care Reform and Cost Control.” http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1006571. In the New England Journal of Medicine 363; 7.
CBO (2009). “An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Download the full text in PDF format athttp://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10781/11-30-Premiums.pdf.
J. Gruber (2009). “The House Proposal Lowers Non-Group Premiums.” http://www.healthpolicyproject.org/Publications_files/Business/2010/GruberHousenongroup11-2-1.pdf.
J. Gruber (2011). “The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?” NBER Working Paper #17168. http://economics.mit.edu/files/6829. Read pages 13-20, focusing on content rather than technical details.
[Optional] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2012). “The Affordable Care Act: Lowering Medicare Costs by Improving Care.” http://www.cms.gov/apps/files/ACA-savings-report-2012.pdf.
[Optional] S. Harrington (2009). “The Health Insurance Reform Debate.” https://hcmg.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=public:main.file&fileID=1594. Read for a dissenting view on the cost impacts of the ACA.

Week 8 – The ACA and health care delivery

H. Komisar, J. Feder and P. Ginsburg for the Center for American Progress. “’Bundling’ Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care.”http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/07/pdf/medicare_bundling.pdf. Read pages 1-10.
J. Gruber (2011). “The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?” NBER Working Paper #17168. http://economics.mit.edu/files/6829. Read section II.B on pages 4-7.
M. Merlis for AcademyHealth (2011). “The Affordable Care Act and Employer-Sponsored Insurance for Working Americans.”http://www.academyhealth.org/files/nhpc/2011/AH_2011AffordableCareReportFINAL3.pdf.
[Optional] H. Aaron (2011). “The Independent Payment Advisory Board – Congress’s ‘Good Deed’.” In New England Journal of Medicine 364.http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1105144. Read for pro-IPAB arguments.
[Optional] Association of American Medical Colleges (2010). “Independent Payment Advisory Board IPAB (IPAB).”https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/medicare/153896/independentpaymentadvisoryboardipab.html. Read for arguments against IPAB.

Week 8 – The ACA and innovation

McKinsey & Company (2011). “Cross-currents in the health economy.” Download the full report at the bottom of the page onhttp://healthreform.mckinsey.com/Insights/Latestthinking/Crosscurrentsinthehealtheconomy. Read pages 1-9.
[Optional] J. Cacciotti and M. Mozeson for Oliver Wyman. “How ACA Could Transform the US Pharmaceutical Marketplace.”http://www.oliverwyman.com/media/ACAandthePharmaMarketplace.pdf.

Statistics and Probability Background

February 26, 2012 Clifford Thompson Leave a comment

Statistics: Lecture Notes

Stats: Probability Rules
“I like to use what’s called a joint probability distribution. (Since disjoint means nothing in common, joint is what they have in common — so the values that go on the inside portion of the table are the intersections or “and”s of each pair of events). “Marginal” is another word for totals — it’s called marginal because they appear in the margins.”

The UBC Calculus Online Homepage — short intro

probability density
n. Statistics In both senses also called probability distribution.
1. A function whose integral over a given interval gives the probability that the values of a random variable will fall within the interval.
2. The calculated value of a probability density.

Chain Rule

John Sowa — mathamatical background

paskin.org — some useful presentations on probability and structured representation

Normalization

Normal Distribution

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_score“>Standard (Z) Score

Probability Density Function

Categories: AI, Math, Probability, Statistics Tags: Chain Rule, John Sowa, Linguist, Probability, Probability Density, Statistics, structured representation

Linked Data Graph Orientated Frameworks

January 9, 2012 Clifford Thompson Comments off

Glossary of Semantic Technology Terms
http://www.mkbergman.com/1017/glossary-of-semantic-technology-terms/

The Rationale for Semantic Technologies
http://www.mkbergman.com/1015/the-rationale-for-semantic-technologies/

Ontologies as Conceptual Models
http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/blog/-/blogs/ontologies-as-conceptual-models?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnterpriseSemantics+%28Enterprise+Semantics+Blog%29

The Rationale for Semantic Technologies
http://www.mkbergman.com/1015/the-rationale-for-semantic-technologies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AI3_AdaptiveInformation+%28AI3%3A%3A%3AAdaptive+Information%29

JSON-LD by Manu Sporny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vioCbTo3C-4#!

Semantic Web Intro by Manu Sporny
http://bit.ly/Kw6Asm

Linked Data Intro by Manu Sporny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q

Linked Data FAQ
http://structureddynamics.com/linked_data.html

Linked Data – Welcome to the Data Network (may behind a pay wall)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6062547

Pregel
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/pregel/

Google Pregel Graph Processing
http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-pregel-graph-processing.html

Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing – “ABSTRACT”
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1590000/1582723/p6-malewicz-2.pdf?ip=99.5.73.174&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&CFID=61362319&CFTOKEN=25119961&__acm__=1326116961_4c5dbb95b82d3aaedcc9b134c8fd4318

Pregel a system for larescale graph processing slides

http://www.slideshare.net/shatteredNirvana/pregel-a-system-for-largescale-graph-processing

GoldenOrb
http://goldenorbos.org/

Signal/Collect
http://code.google.com/p/signal-collect/

Categories: Analytics, Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Linked Data, Ontology, RDF, Semantics, Statistics Tags: Conceputual Models, Data, GoldenOrb, JSON-LD, Linked Data, Manu Sporny, Pregel, Signal/Collect

Accountable Care Organization

November 7, 2011 Clifford Thompson Comments off

Escaping the EHR Trap — The Future of Health IT
Kenneth D. Mandl, M.D., M.P.H., and Isaac S. Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2012; 366:2240-2242June 14, 2012
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1203102

THE COST CONUNDRUM
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande

Atul Gawande Keynote | Health Data Forum III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAp_lieYydU&feature=player_embedded

CMS ACO Video on Final Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQj-UJtMi0&feature=uploademail

Health Affairs Blog Most-Read List For October
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/11/10/14814/http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/11/10/14814/

The Accountable Care Organization Final Rule
http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/11/accountable-care-organization-final.html

Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations — Final Rule
http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/ec_res/nt/307CCD4B-735E-48C9-A4DB-6BC34D08FE42/ACOfinal.pdf

Eligible Professionals
*Updated CMS Specification Sheets

Eligible Hospitals
*Updated CMS Specification Sheets

Categories: ACO, EHR, Healthcare and Medicine Tags: Accountable Care Organization, ACO, Atul Gawande, CMS, EHRMandl, Final Rule, Isaac S. Kohane, Kenneth D.

Machine Learning

May 27, 2011 Clifford Thompson Leave a comment

Mahoot
http://mahout.apache.org/

Machine Learning and Hadoop by Josh Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p06Xg5REj0&feature=youtube_gdata

Pycon 2012 ML and Python Talks
http://aimotion.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-data-and-machine-learning-talks.html

Some ML Packages in Python

mloss.org — http://mloss.org/software/
shogun toolbox — http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/
nltk
mlpy
pyml
pybrain
mdp-toolkit
scikit-learn — look at this — http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
Numpy – array processing
Scipy — algorithms built on top of numpy
ml-class.org to tutorials
mkjob (yelp) for hadoop

Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk

The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Andrew Ng, Stanford University, STAN 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4ajbu_G3k

a machine learning definition:
“A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.” — Mitchell, Tom M. (1997). Machine Learning, McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-042807-7, p.2.

ML Videos
http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/Machine_Learning/

Guide to Getting Started in Machine Learning
http://abeautifulwww.com/2009/10/11/guide-to-getting-started-in-machine-learning/

Stanford – Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a6d-4052-937d-cb017338d7b1

Welcome to the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository!
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

MLOSS
http://www.mloss.org/software/

CRAN Task View: Machine Learning & Statistical Learning
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MachineLearning.html

MIT – 18.06 Linear Algebra
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/index.htm

Categories: AI, Bayes Theorem, Data, Machine Learning, Python, R, Statistics Tags: AI, Andrew Ng, CRAN, Hadoop, Learning Data, Linear Algebra, Machine Learning, Mahoot, MIT, Pycon 2012, Python, R, Robotics, Stanford, Tom Mitchell, Vision

Languages

February 22, 2016 Clifford Thompson Leave a comment

julia —
python
rust
NIPS NIPS

DeepMind and Demis Hassabis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fjmnOQuqao

royal society

hyperloop video — https://youtu.be/_hHrMa4Jeps

Categories: Robotics

stuff

April 10, 2014 Clifford Thompson Leave a comment

‘An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming’ by C.A.R. Hoare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDchFEpJV7ottps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDchFEpJV7o

Leading a Healthcare Company to the Big Data Promised Land: A Case Study of Hadoop in Healthcare http://www.infoq.com/presentations/hadoop-cigna

Nathan Marz on Storm, Immutability in the Lambda Architecture, Clojure http://www.infoq.com/interviews/marz-lambda-architecture

Homo Sapiens 2.0: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity
http://92yondemand.org/homo-sapiens-2-0-genetic-enhancement-future-humanity/#sthash.YuscIir9.dpuf

At-Google Talks: “Scrum” with Dr Jeff Sutherland | London, UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L1oBLTICx4&feature=em-uploademail

Telling Technology Stories with IPython Notebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXXpaVpNSc

Guide for Technical Development
http://www.google.com/edu/tools-and-solutions/guide-for-technical-development/index.html

Enchanted Objects — Internet of Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCLDaUVCm0#t=538

Computational Neuroscience – An Introduction
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2012/05/computational-neuroscience-introduction.html

Building the world’s largest radio telescope | Maria Grazia Labate | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrzjnQXjR4Q&list=PLkRTE4QUVRQOLCo-qleSwk72Dq-XAkdS-#t=297

Python 3 Metaprogramming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiWg5jSoZI

Tesla Motors – The Future of Electric Cars [Full Documentary]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7J-tlrkVEE

MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial celebration
http://webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu/fall2014/AeroAstro/index-Fri-PM.html

Welcome to Deep Learning
http://deeplearning.net/

The Virtual Interview: Edward Snowden — OCTOBER 11, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/new-yorker-festival/live-stream-edward-snowden?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_141013_Daily&CUST_ID=24261485&spMailingID=7198838&spUserID=MjYxOTc5Mjg3NzcS1&spJobID=541434286&spReportId=NTQxNDM0Mjg2S0

Deep Learning: Intelligence from Big Data
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/09/deep-learning-intelligence-from-big-data.html

The Future of Civilian Robotics http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/09/15-future-civilian-robotics

Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: “One Year After healthcare.gov…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vc8sxhy2I4&feature=em-uploademail

The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology By Ray Kurzweil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJJRcD8Md3U

Talks at Google: David Rose, “Enchanted Objects”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCLDaUVCm0&feature=em-uploademail

Lesie Lamport ACM 2014 A.M. Turing Award Winner

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Microsoft-Research-Luminaries/Leslie-Lamport-ACM-2014-A-M-Turing-Award-Winner

Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital: Jessica Livingston, Y Combinator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEVbr_2KXQ

Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital: Rob Freelan, Silicon Valley Bank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7lPalSprt4&feature=em-uploademail

Ed Boyden on Singularity 1 on 1: Let’s Bring Engineers into Studying the Brainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teuKfeEkaKs

Y Combinator: “fund for the pivot”
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/08/y-combinator-fund-for-pivot.html

Humans Need Not Apply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

A Conversation with Max Kuhn – The useR! 2014 Interview
http://datascience.la/a-conversation-with-max-kuhn-the-user-2014-interview/

A Conversation with Hadley Wickham – the useR! 2014 interview
http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-conversation-with-hadley-wickham-the-user-2014-interview/

Field Trip: Google Self-Driving Cars!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent/cvpj74ostve3po9bs7vpt761apc&ytl=JbSmSp-fL1g&wpsrc=yta

Biodiversity Seminar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeowpY5WPE

Dr. Ivar Jacobson – The Essence of Software Engineering: the SEMAT Approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNlERrVxYjs&feature=em-uploademail

Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? – SXSW Interactive 2014 (Full Session)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD-ahgTkGvs

Bitcoin: The Future of Currency?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJHk7QzSqn4

What Is Fracking? This Simple Animation Is The Best Explanation We’ve Ever Seen
http://www.businessinsider.com/marathon-oil-animation-on-hydraulic-fracking-2014-7?op=1#ixzz38BINBpcU

New Developments in Valve Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCWq0wzPsw&feature=em-uploademail

Towards Ubiquitous OWL Computing: Simplifying Programmatic Authoring of and Querying with OWL Axioms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SlYwMyn-A&feature=em-uploademail

Can We Create A Science of Consciousness?
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/07/can-we-create-science-of-consciousness.html

Getting Started with Glass
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/google-glass

Understanding and Using Regular Expressions
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/regex?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global&utm_reader=feedly

NASA’s Updated Warp Drive Space Craft Concept Looks Like Science Fiction Brought to Life
Read more: http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/06/nasas-updated-warp-drive-space-craft.html#ixzz34MLTnuS3
Follow us: @33rdsquare on Twitter | 33rdsquare on Facebook
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/06/nasas-updated-warp-drive-space-craft.html

Jonathan Bush, Where Does It Hurt? | Talks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9R9UbccAQ&feature=em-uploademail

SpaceX Dragon V2 can seat up to seven passengers, use thrusters to land on solid ground
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/29/space-x-dragon-v2/

The Illicit World Of ‘Dark Wallet’
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/05/06/bitcoin-dark-money-dark-wallet

Asia-Pacific Security: A Changing Role for the United States

http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/199098

Home-Ownership And The Stalled Economy

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/04/28/home-sales-housing-market-real-estate

The Mega Costs Of Miracle Drugs

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/04/25/sovaldi-pharmaceutical-miracle-drugs

orielly
https://members.oreilly.com/account/emedia/index?filter=all-products&sort=added&order=asc&isbn=9781491901137

cms
http://cms.gov/eHealth/

The discovery that could rewrite physics
http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_adams_the_discovery_that_could_rewrite_physics?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2014-04-05&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_image