PHYSIOFUTURIST DOMAIN
Big Data and Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics can help estimate risk, recovery, and service needs, but reliable models begin with trustworthy clinical data. Physiotherapy services need shared definitions, practical outcome measures, representative populations, and clear governance. A prediction is useful only when it is well calibrated locally and leads to a better decision than ordinary assessment.
Questions for practice
- Which problem would this address, and what outcomes matter to the person receiving care?
- What evidence supports this application, population, and setting?
- What skills, safeguards, resources, and accountability would its use require?
- What would justify continuing, changing, or stopping its use?
This is an introductory overview of a domain in the PhysioFuturist model. Specific products and clinical uses need their own evidence assessment.
Read the Perspective for the reasoning behind these questions or explore the autonomy-accountability continuum.