AIMC Topic: Health Care Costs

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Robot-assisted surgery in a broader healthcare perspective: a difference-in-difference-based cost analysis of a national prostatectomy cohort.

BMJ open
OBJECTIVE: To estimate costs attributable to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) as compared with open prostatectomy (OP) and laparoscopic prostatectomies (LP) in a National Health Service perspective.

A medical cost estimation with fuzzy neural network of acute hepatitis patients in emergency room.

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Taiwan is an area where chronic hepatitis is endemic. Liver cancer is so common that it has been ranked first among cancer mortality rates since the early 1980s in Taiwan. Besides, liver cirrhosis and chronic liver diseases are the sixth or seventh i...

Comparison of methods for tuning machine learning model hyper-parameters: with application to predicting high-need high-cost health care users.

BMC medical research methodology
BACKGROUND: Supervised machine learning is increasingly being used to estimate clinical predictive models. Several supervised machine learning models involve hyper-parameters, whose values must be judiciously specified to ensure adequate predictive p...

Improving Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications.

Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives
Since the early 1970s, technology has increasingly become integrated into the healthcare field. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML, a set of learning techniques used by AI) have the capacity to revolutionize the delivery of ...

Predicting high-need high-cost pediatric hospitalized patients in China based on machine learning methods.

Scientific reports
Rapidly increasing healthcare spending globally is significantly driven by high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients, who account for the top 5% of annual healthcare costs but over half of total expenditures. The programs targeting existing HNHC patients ...

Artificial intelligence in healthcare: A call for strategic implementation to maximize impact and minimize costs.

The Medical journal of Malaysia
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare by improving diagnostics, decision-making, and patient outcomes. This commentary emphasizes the need for strategic AI implementation to maximize benefits while minimizing costs. Although AI can ...

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Reducing the Cost of Dementia: A Scoping Review.

Studies in health technology and informatics
INTRODUCTION: Dementia is a major cause of disability among the elderly, imposing significant financial burdens on healthcare systems. Traditional care approaches contribute to rising costs, especially in high-income countries. Artificial intelligenc...

Determining health care cost drivers in older Hodgkin lymphoma survivors using interpretable machine learning methods.

Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy
BACKGROUND: The cost of health care for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is projected to rise, making it essential to understand expenditure drivers across different demographics, including the older adult population. Although older HL patients co...