Predictive Analytics in Clinical Decision-Making: From Alerting to Anticipating
This has been the reality of clinical decision-making for years: healthcare reacts after the signal becomes visible. Traditional clinical decision support systems helped standardize care and reduce errors, but most systems relied on static rules and issued alerts only after an event had occurred. They identify danger when it is already happening, not when it is quietly forming underneath the surface. That delay is expensive clinically, operationally, and financially.