Deakin strikes landmark health deal

DEAKIN University has signed a deal with Max Healthcare for a ground-breaking project to cross-reference patient records to help medical decisions.
The project’s upshot is critically important from economic, patient safety and systems perspectives, according to Deakin.
The first part of the project will focus on heart disease, specifically patients with symptoms of acute myocardial infarction or stroke.
“The primary objective of the project will be to search through the existing data sets for hidden patterns of both the predictable and preventable events in managing the health care of individuals,” said Professor Svetha Venkatesh, director of Deakin’s Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics.
“Both Deakin and Max Healthcare will bring so-called ‘big data’ to work for medicine with its huge records of patient history – with data on admissions, diagnosis and outcomes, spanning a huge inventory of images, computerised records and registries and the consequent untapped potential to identify critical safety issues, as well as service and clinical efficiencies.”
The project would use data to develop a model for predicting health issues.
Max Healthcare would pilot the model on prospective cases over a period of one year, sharing the results with the Deakin team.
Max Healthcare’s Dr Sandeep Budhiraja said the landmark project would take health care management to a “different level”.
“We look forward to working with Deakin in order to advance research on data analytics for health data.”