Health IT Analytics: Combating COVID-19 Misinformation with Predictive Analytics
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, predictive analytics have helped healthcare organizations plan for surges in patients, allocate necessary resources, and anticipate which populations would be at greatest risk for poor outcomes from the disease. Now, medical students are leveraging the power of predictive analytics to identify high-risk patients and decrease the spread of misinformation among individuals – a phenomenon that has become rampant in the wake of COVID-19.