ABSTRACT
The chapter examines how the established use of predictive analytics in one field—policing—can offer insights for its newer application in another—health care—and vice versa. Predictive policing has now been around for decades, employed by police departments across the United States and studied by scholars and policymakers alike. The use of predictive analytics in health care, by contrast, is only now starting to come to the forefront of the profession. Placing the fields side-by-side reveals substantial and important areas of overlap: the balance between privacy and innovation; how professional roles must adapt to new technologies; when reliance on big data changes from blessing to curse; how regulatory regimes should evolve; and many more. As we explore, to the degree that lessons can be learned from this dialogue, they go in both directions.
