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PREDICTING CHRONIC DISEASES FROM HEALTHCARE DATA-A FRAMEWORK BASED ON GRAPH THEORY AND SOCIAL NETWORK MEASURES

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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

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ADAPTING GRAPH THEORY AND SOCIAL NETWORK MEASURES ON HEALTHCARE DATA – A NEW FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND CHRONIC DISEASE PROGRESSION

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The paper presents an approach that applies social network theory to understand chronic disease progression. Submitted to the Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management  https://cs.anu.edu.au/conf/acsw2016/sub-confs/hikm.html Author(s): Arif Khan, Shahadat Uddin and Uma Srinivasan

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LEVERAGING BIG DATA ANALYTICS TO REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS

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The healthcare sector deals with large volumes of electronic data related to patient services. This article describes two novel applications that leverage big data to detect fraud, abuse, waste, and errors in health insurance claims, thus reducing recurrent losses and facilitating enhanced patient care. The results indicate that claim anomalies detected using these applications help

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ANOMALIES DETECTION IN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

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Srinivasan, U. “Anomalies Detection in Healthcare Services” Using several practical examples of cost and quality-of-care outliers, the author presents a framework to detect outliers and anomalies in healthcare services. Author(s): Srinivasan, U. View Paper

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LEVERAGING BIG DATA ANALYTICS TO REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS

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The healthcare sector deals with large volumes of electronic data related to patient services. This article describes two novel applications that leverage big data to detect fraud, abuse, waste, and errors in health insurance claims, thus reducing recurrent losses and facilitating enhanced patient care. The results indicate that claim anomalies detected using these applications help

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APPLICATION OF NETWORK ANALYSIS ON HEALTHCARE

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Fei Wang, Uma Srinivasan, Shahadat Uddin, and Sanjay Chawla. “Application of network analysis on healthcare”. In Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on IEEE, 2014. The healthcare sector holds large amounts of semantically rich electronic data generated and used by different sections of the health care community. Data analytic

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MULTI-FUND DATA ANALYTICS TARGETS ENHANCED VALUE-FOR-MONEY IN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

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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,

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MULTI-FUND DATA ANALYTICS TARGETS ENHANCED VALUE-FOR-MONEY IN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

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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,

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A FRAMEWORK FOR ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM DATA TO EXPLORE HEALTHCARE COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION

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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

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AN APPROACH TO EMPOWER PATIENTS TO MANAGE DIABETES

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Timely information and education can enhance the ability of consumers to make informed choices about their health, lifestyle and modifiable disease risk factors. Due to its unstructured and varied format, and lack of targeted delivery methods, information and knowledge does not often reach consumers, when they need it most. The aim of this project is

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