Predictive analytics is the practice of learning from historical data in contemplation of making predictions about the future or any unknown. Predictive analytics is not new to health care. However, in the past it has been limited by many factors, including data availability and accessibility. In the last few years with the widespread implementation of electronic health records (HERs) and the growing patient generated data, we have seen an overabundance of data in healthcare. The amount of this data will continue to multiply and we are expected to produce more than 2300 Exabytes by 2020 (1 EB = 1 billion gigabytes). But in order to leverage this data, we need to analyze it and reach actionable insights. And here is where Healthcare Data Analytics
