Title
A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation.
Abstract
Episode creation, the task of classifying medical events and related clinical data to a high-level concept, such as a disease, illness or care, has been primarily an interest of healthcare payers for purposes of cost outcomes analysis. Traditional challenges in episode creation have included: inconsistencies in defining episodes; lack of sufficient information to infer episodes; and differences in methods for diagnosing and resolving episodes. However with the advent of the electronic medical record, which contains multiple sources of patient-related information, data is now accessible to construct more accurate and refined episodes. This work presents a context-sensitive episode creation methodology that utilizes features extracted from different medical repositories (e.g., claims records, structured medical reports) to associate the data with their respective motivating episodes. The combinatorial approach used to find the optimal clustering of patient-related data into episode groups and the measure used to evaluate candidate episode sets are described.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
AMIA 2002 SYMPOSIUM, PROCEEDINGS: BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS: ONE DISCIPLINE
medical records
Field
DocType
Citations 
Health care,Insurance Claim Reporting,Disease,Patient care,Medical record,Pain management,Medical emergency,Cluster analysis,Medicine
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roderick Y. Son141.99
Ricky K. Taira2459240.06
Alex Bui331848.20
Hooshang Kangarloo410417.48
Alfonso F. Cardenas52021.31