SPSS Predictive Analytics manages Special Olympics health initiative

Special Olympics International has found an ally in technology. Special Olympics uses sports training and competition to help individuals with intellectual disabilities become physically fit, productive and respected members of society. To improve access to healthcare for its athletes, Special Olympics created a Healthy Athletes initiative, which provides free vision, dental, hearing, podiatric, physical fitness and other screenings at its events. The organization chose SPSS Predictive Analytics software to collect and analyze information. SPSS reports that its software enables Special Olympics to understand, for example, how various health circumstances may serve as indicators of the possible presence of other conditions; for example, low bone density may also be an indication of future hearing loss. Using the information, Special Olympics is able to more appropriately guide athletes through the Healthy Athletes screening process.

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