Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for reducing feature space in analysis of medical data. Aspects include receiving patient temporal traces. Aspects also include conducting sequential pattern mining on the patient temporal traces to produce sequential features. Aspects also include clustering the sequential features with a similarity metric. Aspects also include analyzing the clustered features to predict a healthcare outcome.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for reducing feature space in analysis of medical data. Aspects include receiving patient temporal traces. Aspects also include conducting sequential pattern mining on the patient temporal traces to produce sequential features. Aspects also include clustering the sequential features with a similarity metric. Aspects also include analyzing the clustered features to predict a healthcare outcome.

Abstract: An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.

Abstract: A systematic data-driven approach for building an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is provided. In one aspect, a method for forming an ACO includes: determining groups of healthcare providers that have x number of patients in common; detecting communities in the groups using a recursive community detection process; ranking contractual organizations of the healthcare providers based on how well the contractual organizations represent the communities; and making recommendations for the contractual organizations to include in the ACO based on the ranking.

Abstract: An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.

Abstract: A system, method and program product for cost attribution using multiple factors, in which transactional data sets from two or more time periods are analyzed based on multiple potential factors in the data sets that can be correlated to cost. The potential factors are systematically analyzed to identify a set of cost factors and compute the cost impact for each cost factor. An infrastructure is disclosed having a data selection system; a potential factors system; a factor hierarchy system; an actionability class system; a factor processing system and a cost factor reporting system for providing the cost impact of the set of cost factors based on analysis of the transactional data sets.

Abstract: An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.

Abstract: An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.