Optum labs: Building a novel node in the learning health care system

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1187-1194

  Wallace, Paul J ^a   Shah, Nilay D ^b   Dennen, Taylor ^a   Bleicher, Paul A ^a   Crown, William H ^a  

^a OPTUM   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; COMPUTER NETWORK; COOPERATION; DATA MINING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA MINING; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905962659     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0038     Document Type: Article

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