A Decision-Tree Based Classifier for Providing Telehealth Services

摘要

This study proposes a heuristic decision tree telehealth classification approach (HDTTCA), a systematic approach to classify those who are eligible for telehealth services. HDTTCA identifies three of the most important attributes in the data set for the patients who qualified for telehealth service: clinical records, convenience, and social-economic status. By acquiring a large volume data set from the National Health Insurance in Taiwan, this study verifies the efficiency and validity of HDTTCA. The results indicate that HDTTCA is able to find a decision tree to classify the patients that should benefit from telehealth service.