With the capabilities that informatics brings to the health care sector come the responsibility of considering the legal and ethical outcomes of using patient data, even if anonymous, to inform policies, practices, and patient costs of receiving care. This week, you study the use and implications of predictive analytics to personalize and improve patient care.

• Research an example of using predictive analytics in health care and share the link in your post. Summarize the application, its benefits, and potential drawbacks. Do you think the benefits are worth the potential risks and disadvantages?
• Is predictive analytics that uses genomics racist, sexist, homophobic, or discriminatory in other ways? Defend your answer using course and industry sources.
• As a healthcare administrative professional, what do you think is potentially the greatest organizational benefit of using predictive analytics in patient care?

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Example of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare Application One notable example of using predictive analytics in healthcare is the prediction of sepsis onset in hospitalized patients Sepsis is a lifethr... View the full answer