I don’t want to get political about our healthcare system here in the United States, but those numbers are very large. And as a future physician (Class of 2024), I am worried about my career as well as where healthcare is headed in the coming years. The doctors, nurses, PAs, etc. have been working so hard during this pandemic time. They deserve to have their job secured at the end of it all, don’t you think?
Cresco certainly thinks so. And they have a solution that integrates data science and decision optimization into an analytics platform to help keep healthcare up and running. It is most certainly a game changer!
But before we get into that awesome tech, what does healthcare optimization look like? In general, optimization means finding the best solution out of all the possibilities. For example, there is more than one way to skin a cat, but there is one optimal way to do it. Additionally, Google states optimization is the action of making the best or most effective use of a situation or resource. To clarify, this can apply to a variety of industries. Specifically in healthcare, I have listed the complex problems we want to address with optimization.