Frequently Asked Questions

Q18. I’m in the healthcare industry. What can DCI do for me?

We’ve done some really exciting projects on a wide variety of issues related to healthcare and medicine:

Risk Screening – predicting premature births based on risk factors
Risk Screening – predicting future cost of care for patients in an HMO
Drug efficacy and economic outcomes – finding drug regimens that show significant cost benefits while maintaining or improving medical outcomes for the patient
Drug discovery – improving the “hit rate” for finding bioactive compounds
Pharmaceutical sales – Predicting physician prescribing behavior in response to various types of campaigns
Survey analysis – Analyzing patient responses to a course of medication
Fraud detection/reduction – identifying healthcare providers submitting fraudulent claims
Fraud reduction – ranking pharmacies on suspicious behavior for audit and recovery
Medical image analysis – classifying breast cancer exam images

For more on DCI’s work in the health and medical industries, please see the DCI Corporate Healthcare Résumé, or take a look at the list of some of our past clients in the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries.