A Patient-Centric Healthcare Model Based on Health Recommender Systems

摘要

Health recommender system (HRS) has been quite useful in providing effective recommendations not only to the patients but also to the physicians. However, this paper focusses on the patient-centric model and our major concern will be towards the recommendations that will serve as a boon to the patients by recommending suitable treatments to them based on analysis of other patient's profile with similar attributes. Patients have to provide their contextual information such as diagnosis and symptoms which will be maintained in the form of personal health records (PHR). HRS using patient-centric healthcare model as proposed in this paper will not only help the patients in the early prediction and treatment of disease, but also help in reducing the costs of treatments. Model will also be leveraged by patients in selection of healthcare provider based on successful treatment delivered by them to patients with similar profiles and symptoms.