Governments as well as health and accident compensation insurers are grappling to improve health outcomes while keeping spiraling costs under control. These seemingly irreconcilable goals require a careful balance of policy to help stem the tide of ever increasing costs in the health industry. Dr Uma Srinivasan CMC Insurance Solutions CMC Lead Scientist Keywords: Health insurance,
The health industry consumes vast amounts of money and resources and is seen as a “black-hole” in many Government budgets. A ground breaking study using new science could save the industry millions and point the way for future research. Dr Shahadat Uddin CMCRC PhD Graduate Lecturer, U. Sydney Shahadat Uddin is a graduate of the
A study by CMCRC researchers presents a fresh look at extracting apposition from large collections of news, web and broadcast text in order to turn unstructured news stories into “computable data”. News is about interactions between entities ‐ people, places and organisations ‐ and understanding stories requires interpreting the entities in them and their attributes.
Hospitals routinely collect admitted patients’ data for administrative purposes and for reporting to the government and health insurers. These heterogeneous and mostly untapped data contain rich semantic information about patients’ health conditions in the form of standard disease codes. These traces of clinical information can be aggregated over patients to understand how their health progresses
Extraction of concepts present in patient clinical records is an essential step in clinical research. The 2010 i2b2/VA Workshop on Natural Language Processing Challenges for clinical records presented concept extraction (CE) task, with aim to identify concepts (such as treatments, tests, problems) and classify them into predefined categories. State-of-the-art CE approaches heavily rely on hand
Governments as well as health and accident compensation insurers are grappling to improve health outcomes while keeping spiralling costs under control. These seemingly irreconcilable goals require a careful balance of policy to help stem the tide of ever increasing costs in the health industry. Dr Uma Srinivasan CMC Insurance Solutions CMC Lead Scientist Keywords: Health insurance,
Chronic conditions can be costly but also preventable as well as predictable. We develop a model to predict in the short term (2-3 years) the onset of one or more chronic conditions. Five chronic conditions are considered: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Predictions are made on the basis of standard demographic/socio-economic variables, risk
The health industry consumes vast amounts of money and resources and is seen as a “black-hole” in many Government budgets. A ground breaking study using new science could save the industry millions and point the way for future research. Dr Shahadat Uddin CMCRC PhD Graduate Lecturer, U. Sydney Shahadat Uddin is a graduate of the
The study illustrates a framework to predict the progression of chronic diseases from a new perspective using graph theory and social network analysis methods. The framework utilizes large and untapped longitudinal administrative data sets that contain ICD-10-AM disease codes that describe the principal and secondary diagnosis recorded during hospital admissions. The primary focus of the
Previous studies have documented the application of electronic health insurance claim data for health services research purposes. In addition to administrative and billing details of healthcare services, insurance data reveal important information regarding professional interactions/links that emerge among healthcare service providers through, for example, informal knowledge sharing. By utilising details of such professional interactions and