Global Bigdata Conference

KenSci, a company that has developed a machine learning risk prediction platform for healthcare, recently presented a paper on predicting end-of-life mortality and improving care. The paper, which tackles a tricky topic with predictions for the last six to 12 months of life for patients, was accepted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. At stake is $205 billion in cost spent on care for the last year of an individual's life. The number of Americans using palliative care services continues to grow and was estimated at 1.7 million, or about 46% of those who die (NHPCO 2016). Yet these services are being utilized too late: the median length of stay in hospice care in 2016 was only 23 days.