Eduardo Valencia

Price Prediction in Healthcare Tendering

Price Prediction in Healthcare Tendering

Predicting the final price of an auction has become an increasingly important area of business improvement for healthcare providers. Manufacturers can obtain a large profit by using previously predicted prices.  At Konplik Health, we have over 6 years of experience...

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Game Theory in Healthcare Tendering

Game Theory in Healthcare Tendering

In healthcare tendering, game theory principles are often applied to predict the winning price at a tendering opportunity. In our practice at price-based tendering, we more often than not gather evidence that human decision-making is not governed by rationality. Bidders play very often against their own benefit.

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Tendering Strategy in the Healthcare Industry

Tendering Strategy in the Healthcare Industry

Sales through tenders in healthcare are becoming a vital element in the strategy of manufacturers. Healthcare tenders affect purchases of medical supplies and equipment, purchases of medicines (especially for non-patent pharmaceuticals), and services. Healthcare...

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Web Scraping and NLP in Healthcare

Web Scraping and NLP in Healthcare

NLP projects in healthcare are often dependent on Internet-based public sources such as the world wide web.  These projects usually begin by extracting data from a variety of websites. We call this process “web scraping” (or “web harvesting”). While users can handle...

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Resources for Tagging Adverse Drug Reactions

Resources for Tagging Adverse Drug Reactions

Documents in the health domain show specific vocabulary and linguistic structure. If you take a look at clinical Records or Electronic Health Records (EHR), you will see that it is also made up of unstructured data (that is, free text). This free text contains weird...

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Case Study: Voice of the Patient for Pharma

Case Study: Voice of the Patient for Pharma

Pharmaceutical companies are extending their Voice of the Patient projects to include social media: comments on web forums, surveys, Twitter, and more.  The goal of the proof of concept ordered by one particular pharmaceutical company in Spain was to: " Collect and...

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