AMGA Data Mining Project to Provide Outcomes, Benchmarks.(American medical group association)

From: Health Data Management | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Martin, Zack | Copyright information

The American Medical Group Association is embarking on an initiative to create a huge collaborative data warehouse that eventually will house longitudinal data on more than 8 million patients.

The data warehouse will enable group practices to compare treatments among participants and may provide additional revenue for participating groups.

The association has completed a pilot study using records of more than 1.5 million patients from three different medical g...

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