The Role of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

MiMedx group vice president Kevin Lilly has more than 15 years of experience providing technology solutions to the healthcare industry. One of the companies that he had worked in prior to MiMedx was McKesson Technology Solutions. Kevin Lilly was the vice president for sales, analytics, and capacity management at McKesson for six years, where his work surpassed projected sales figures for the company’s analytics solutions.

Healthcare providers are under pressure to improve their patient outcomes. One tool they are using to reach that goal is predictive analytics. This innovation refers to pattern identification in collated data through artificial intelligence algorithms, that enables users to forecast likely future events.

Predictive analysis supports medical professionals in making informed choices ahead of these predicted events, and allocate the necessary resources. The use of this tool can help identify high-risk patients who require early health intervention. Acting on this data by reaching out to the patient can help tackle the ailment and bring the costs of caring down by preventing early readmission. Data analytics can also help provide a quick reaction, making a vital difference in a patient's health outcome.

Predictive analysis is also useful in medical imaging to improve the diagnosis of some ailments like cancer. This technology helps improve organizational efficiency among healthcare providers. It shows areas in which funding can improve outcomes, eliminate resource wastage, and improve administrative hindrances, like patient scheduling and congested workflow processes. Thus, the significance of predictive analysis in the medical field lies in being able to ensure that healthcare services are being improved, and expenses are being kept down. 

MiMedx’s Give the Gift of Healing Program

A former senior vice president of sales at MiMedx, Kevin Lilly helped the company grow significantly. Kevin Lilly’s role in the company’s growth involved developing sales and marketing strategies for wound care, among other activities.

MiMedx operations have incorporated a placental donation program called the Give the Gift of Healing. It aims to use placental stem cell technology to repair various types of wounds. This donation program encourages new mothers who deliver through Caesarean section to donate their afterbirth to the company for medical uses.

Normally, the placenta is discarded as waste, but this tissue, including the amnion/chorion membranes, is rich in elements that can be used toward advancing wound care. These tissues are used to produce allografts through MiMedx's patented PURION process, which allows healthcare professionals to not only use it for wound care but also in surgical, sports medicine, ophthalmic, and dental sectors.

These gifts are not just a donation to science, but they culminate in actually helping others heal from their injuries. Diabetic foot ulcers, soft tissue injuries, and venous leg ulcers and burns are just a few of the injuries that these donations are used toward.

What You Need to Know about MiMedx’s PURION Process

Kevin Lilly is the former Senior Vice President of Sales at MiMedx, which distributes regenerative therapeutic products to medical practitioners in physician’s offices, outpatient clinics, hospitals, and VA facilities. During the course of his tenure, Kevin Lilly grew company sales from $187 million to $385 million.

Several of the company’s products rely on its PURION process for extracting growth factors and bioactive proteins used in human amniotic membrane allografts. The PURION process involves removing the blood factors while making sure to leave the amniotic membrane intact. This allows for the safe separation, cleaning, reassembly, and dehydration of placental tissues in a manner that preserves their healing properties.

The human amniotic membrane is a multi-layered tissue which is comprised of a single layer of epithelial cells as well as avascular connective tissue and a basement membrane. This membrane contains collagens that are commonly associated with cell growth. It also contains specialized proteins within an extracellular matrix and various growth factors. Through the PURION cleaning process, this tissue becomes a durable graft that can be used for reconstructive surgical procedures and wound care.

Youth Lacrosse Guides Players from Elementary through High School

After earning an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Kevin Lilly rose to the level of senior vice president of sales at MiMedx in Marietta, Georgia. Outside of his career, Kevin Lilly coaches players in Trojan Youth Lacrosse, an athletic club that serves elementary and middle school students in Northeast Cobb, Georgia.

Established in the spring of 2006, Trojan Youth Lacrosse was formed from the East Cobb Lacrosse group. Trojan Youth Lacrosse organizes teams for both boys and girls and challenges other clubs in the Newtown Recreation Lacrosse League. Players range from first grade through eighth grade.

Junior Trojan Lacrosse includes middle school students who live in the Lassiter High School District. Players must meet select requirements to compete on the team.

The teams practice and play games on fields at local schools. The season kicks off in February and lasts six weeks, with one game per week through May.