I have just returned from the first ever ICHI (= International Conference on Healthcare Informatics) at which I discovered a "new generation" of healthcare researchers and policymakers, mostly under the age of 35 ... BUT with an UNDERSTANDING and PASSION of what needed to take place to get out of being in about 33rd place in the world in the quality of health care delivery and replacing it with ACCURACY / PATIENT CENTERED EFFECTIVENESS / and EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE processes that match what…

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The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining John Elder I'll be speaking in DC Monday on Text Mining at KDD, and there through Wednesday - July 25 - 28, 2010…



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The following Web page went live this week. It contains free TUTORIALS in Data MIining / Predictive Anaytics; the first set of 6 tutorials cover several topics from "Score Cards" to "Predicting Hurricanes", utilizing SAS-EM, SPSS-PASW, and STATISTISTICA Data MIner; see:

http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123747655