Data Driven Approaches for Healthcare

This book presents data driven methods, especially machine learning, for understanding and approaching the high utilizers problem, using the example of a large public insurance program. It describes important goals for data driven approaches from different aspects of the high utilizer problem, and identifies challenges posed by this problem.

Chengliang Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of Florida Chris Delcher, Institute of Child Health Policy, University of Florida Elizabeth Shenkman, Institute of Child Health Policy, University of Florida Sanjay Ranka, Department of Computer Science, University of Florida.

Introduction. Overview of Healthcare Data. Machine Learning Modeling from Healthcare Data. Machine Learning Modeling from Healthcare Data. Descriptive Analysis of High Utlizers. Residuals Analysis for Identifying High Utilizers.Machine Learning Results for High Utilizers.