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With the continuous modernization of water plants, the risk of cyberattacks on them potentially endangers public health and the economic efficiency of water treatment and distribution. This article signifies the importance of developing improved techniques to support cyber risk management for critical water infrastructure, given an evolving threat environment. In particular, we propose a method that...
Prevention of hospital readmissions has the potential of providing better quality of care to the patients and deliver significant cost savings. A review of existing readmission analysis frameworks based on data type, data size, disease conditions, algorithms and other features shows that existing frameworks do not address the issue of using large amounts of data that is fundamental to readmission...
Unplanned hospital readmission is a costly problem in the United States. Patients treated and readmitted within 30 days cost tax payers up to $26 billion annually. In 2013 the U.S. federal government began to reduce payments to hospitals with excessive patient readmissions. Predictive modeling using machine learning can be a useful tool to help identify patients most likely to need readmission. However,...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a painful chronic disease responsible for many unplanned hospital readmissions. Recent Federal legislation has begun to financially penalize hospitals which have excess patient readmissions. Predictive analytics offers a method to statistically predict which patients are at greatest risk for hospital readmission. Many readmission models currently exist, but...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease that affects airflow to the lungs. Discovering the co-occurrence of COPD with other diseases and symptoms is invaluable to medical staff. Building co-occurrence indexes and finding causal relationships with COPD can be difficult because often times disease prevalence within a population influences results. A method which can better...
Hospital readmission is an important quality of care indicator. It reflects challenges in quality of in-patient care and the difficulty of coordination of care after the transition back into the community. It is also a significant financial burden, especially as it relates to Medicare and Medicaid costs now and into the future. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes...
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