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AUGUST 26, 2020

Moneyball for Health Care: Why Hasn’t It Happened?

Originally published in our sister publication, General Surgery News.

 

By Bruce Ramshaw, MD

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“Moneyball,” a book by Michael Lewis, and later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt, describes the success of applying the principles of data science to develop a winning strategy in baseball. It’s a transferable skill, so why hasn’t Moneyball happened in health care? You would think if data science can be used to win more games in baseball, it could be used to lower costs and