AIMC Topic: Health Services Needs and Demand

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Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number and Vaccination Coverage of Influenza in the United States (2017-18).

Journal of research in health sciences
BACKGROUND: Determining the epidemic threshold parameter helps health providers calculate the coverage while guiding them in planning the process of vaccination strategy. Since the trend and mechanism of influenza is very similar in different countri...

An ensemble boosting model for predicting transfer to the pediatric intensive care unit.

International journal of medical informatics
BACKGROUND: Early deterioration indicators have the potential to alert hospital care staff in advance of adverse events, such as patients requiring an increased level of care, or the need for rapid response teams to be called. Our work focuses on the...

A comparison of rule-based and machine learning approaches for classifying patient portal messages.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: Secure messaging through patient portals is an increasingly popular way that consumers interact with healthcare providers. The increasing burden of secure messaging can affect clinic staffing and workflows. Manual management of portal mess...

Automated Classification of Consumer Health Information Needs in Patient Portal Messages.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Patients have diverse health information needs, and secure messaging through patient portals is an emerging means by which such needs are expressed and met. As patient portal adoption increases, growing volumes of secure messages may burden healthcar...

Creating a place for caregivers in personal health: the iHealthSpace copilot program and diabetes care.

Journal of diabetes science and technology
BACKGROUND: As America's baby boom generation reaches retirement, the number of elders, and, in turn, the number of lay individuals who support them, will continue to increase. With the important services caregivers provide, it is critical that we re...

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...

Machine learning approach for unmet medical needs among middle-aged adults in South Korea: a cross-sectional study.

BMC health services research
BACKGROUND: South Korea is reported to have higher levels of unmet medical needs (UMN) than other countries, particularly among the middle-aged adult population. Considering that this group constitutes a substantial portion of the country's productiv...