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Real-world data analytics key to effective disease management

9/7/2021

Access to high-quality, real-world data gives health care providers insights for effectively managing chronic diseases, and lays the foundation for training artificial intelligence, says Oscar Marroquin, chief health care data and analytics officer at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. IT staff, data engineers, clinical analysts and business intelligence specialists maintain UPMC's data warehouse, which serves as the basis for self-service tools such as predictive and statistical analytics and artificial intelligence models for health care providers and business administrators, Marroquin said.

Pa. nurse makes sweaters for NICU babies

12/27/2018

Caitlin Pechi, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's Magee-Womens Hospital, has been crocheting sweaters for babies in the unit for the past seven years. The sweaters are now a holiday tradition called "Ugly Sweater, Cute Baby."