Title
Predicting hospital visits from geo-tagged Internet search logs.
Abstract
The steady rise in healthcare costs has deprived over 45 million Americans of healthcare services (1, 2) and has encouraged healthcare providers to look for opportunities to improve their operational efficiency. Prior studies have shown that evidence of healthcare seeking intent in Internet searches correlates well with healthcare resource utilization. Given the ubiquitous nature of mobile Internet search, we hypothesized that analyzing geo-tagged mobile search logs could enable us to machine-learn predictors of future patient visits. Using a de-identified dataset of geo-tagged mobile Internet search logs, we mined text and location patterns that are predictors of healthcare resource utilization and built statistical models that predict the probability of a user's future visit to a medical facility. Our efforts will enable the development of innovative methods for modeling and optimizing the use of healthcare resources-a crucial prerequisite for securing healthcare access for everyone in the days to come.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
CRI
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
2016
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vibhu Agarwal100.34
Lichy Han200.34
Isaac Madan300.34
Shaurya Saluja400.34
Aaditya Shidham500.34
Nigam Shah621220.11