Orlando Regional Medical Center, part of Orlando Health and Central Florida’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, is just three blocks from the Pulse Nightclub, where an active shooter killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in June. A team from Orlando Health shared lessons from the response to the shooting at the IHI National Forum, summarized here on the IHI blog. “If [organizations] don’t have a plan, you need to make one,” said Dr. Michael Cheatham, Chief Surgical Officer. “It is not a question of if you will be faced with any event like this. It’s a question of when.”

If Netflix can figure out what you want to watch next, why can’t health care help target patients’ treatment? In a new opinion piece for Stat News, an actuary writes about how his field can help health care customize treatments and affect patients’ behavior. Lots of fields use predictive analytics to target interventions to specific groups, from politics to business. Learn more about improving population health in our course TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim for Populations.

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