title: Clinical Intelligence: The Big Data Analytics Revolution in Healthcare: A Framework for Clinical and Business Intelligence
author: Peter K Ghavami PhD
description: Peter K. Ghavami received his PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of Washington in Seattle and his M.S. in Engineering Management from Portland State University. His career started as a software engineer, with progressive responsibilities at IBM Corp., Director of engineering, Chief Scientist, VP of Engineering and Product Management at various high technology firms. He was Director of Informatics at UW Medicine leading numerous clinical system implementations and new product development projects. He has been strategic advisor and acting VP of Informatics for various analytics companies. His research in data analytics has focused on Prognostics, the application of analytics to predict failures in systems, and has applied this approach to predictive medicine. He has authored several papers and book chapters on software process improvement, super computing, distributed network architectures, and software quality. His first book, titled Lean, Agile and Six Sigma Information Technology Management was published in 2008. Peter is on the advisory board of several clinical analytics companies and often invited as lecturer and speaker on this topic. He is a member of IEEE Reliability Society, and an active member of HIMSS and a contributor to the Data Analytics Task Force and a member of the HIMSS Clinical and Business Intelligence Committee.
zlib_text:  Transforming Healthcare  
  with Big Data and AI
   
  A Volume in:
    New Methods in the Era of Big Data and AI
  Series Editor
  Alex Liu 
  IBM
  
    New Methods in the Era of Big Data and AI
  Series Editor
  Alex Liu 
  IBM
  
   Transforming Healthcare  
  with Big Data and AI
   
  Edited by
  Alex Liu
  Atefeh (Anna) Farzindar
  Mingbo Gong
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  CONTENTS
   
   Preface: Transforming 