IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF PRACTICE IN LARGEADMINISTRATIVE HEALTH DATABASES

摘要

It has become crucial for health service administrators to gain better understanding of current medicalrntreatment patterns and associated costs to predict further developments of the processes governing healthrnchanges, to estimate health costs into the future. Episodic mining is a method that can assist organizations tornincrease their productivity and performance by considering some domain specifics. We suggest an efficientrnand scalable technique to mine episodic data that delivers a compact knowledge about health care episodesrnbased on decomposing a binary relation and the associated lattice.