{"id":51401,"date":"2022-11-30T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/texas-am-university-mays-business-school-and-humana-announce-winners-of-sixth-annual-healthcare-analytics-case-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:02:25","slug":"texas-am-university-mays-business-school-and-humana-announce-winners-of-sixth-annual-healthcare-analytics-case-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/texas-am-university-mays-business-school-and-humana-announce-winners-of-sixth-annual-healthcare-analytics-case-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M University-Mays Business School and Humana Announce Winners of Sixth Annual Healthcare Analytics Case Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mays Business School<\/a> at Texas A&M University and leading health and well-being company Humana Inc.<\/a> (NYSE: HUM) have announced the winners of the 2022 Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition<\/a>, a competition during which students use their analytical abilities to solve a real-world business problem.\n<\/p>\n

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\nIn its sixth year, the competition has grown to be one of the top healthcare analytics case competitions in the country. Over 550 master\u2019s level students, representing 48 major universities in the U.S., registered for the national competition to compete for $80,000 in total prizes.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe student team of Rick Kessels, Karthik Maddipoti and Charlotte Nouwen from UCLA received the first-place prize of $50,000. The second-place prize of $20,000 was awarded to Madhusree Chowdhury, Sai Jahnavi Gamalapati and Di Zhao from University of Connecticut, while the third-place prize of $10,000 was presented to Chen Lin, Bill Pahutski and Paul Selling from UCLA.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis year\u2019s competition focused on the theme \u201cHealth-Related Social Need (HRSN) of Housing Insecurity,\u201d which is defined as the lack of access to quality and safe housing. Students, who were asked to create a model to identify Medicare members most likely to struggle with housing insecurity issues, proposed solutions to help people achieve their best health. This included a targeted outreach strategy for Humana that prioritizes the most vulnerable and underserved populations so that they may receive health solutions.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cHumana is committed to helping people and the communities we serve achieve their best health. We do this by addressing social determinants of health and health-related social needs, both inside and outside of the clinical setting,\u201d said Sam Deshpande, Chief Information Officer at Humana. \u201cAdvanced analytics enable us to identify how to meet the needs of the whole person while helping to steer resources to those who need extra support. It is exciting to see the passion and creative ideas of this year\u2019s participants as they work to solve these systemic health challenges and open the door to future possibilities.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe quality of the analytics these students are delivering has improved each year,\u201d said Scott Bagley, PhD, Vice President of HQRI Technology and Analytics at Humana. Bagley, a Texas A&M alumnus, who has served as a Case Competition Finalist Judge for the past five years, added, \u201cServing as a judge for this competition is my favorite professional opportunity, an exciting partnership that fosters ingenuity and creativity, especially as the real world problems provided have become more challenging to match America\u2019s need to advance and evolve healthcare in this country.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cBusiness schools educate students to solve real-world problems,\u201d said Jerry Strawser, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Mays Business School. \u201cThis case study illustrates how students can apply skills they learn in the classroom to make a difference in the world by improving the health and lives of patients and their families.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThe sixth annual competition was held virtually and was open to all accredited educational institutions based in the United States. Full-time and part-time master\u2019s students from accredited Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Information Systems, Master of Public Health, Master of Business Administration programs or other similar master\u2019s programs in business, healthcare or analytics, were eligible to enter.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe teams were judged based on the following criteria:\n<\/p>\n