title: Applying data analytics and information exchange to improve care for patients.
abstract: Parkland Hospital's Ruben Amarasingham built a model to predict patients at high risk for readmission and now leads efforts to extend the benefits of health information to the nation's most vulnerable.
authors.affiliation: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, Dallas, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Ruben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amarasingham
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007857:Leadership; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010819:Physician's Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013781:Texas