Mining Disease Courses across Organizations: A Methodology Based on Process Mining of Diagnosis Events Datasets

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Authors

  • Paula de Toledo
  • Carolin Joppien
  • Maria Paz Sesmero
  • Paul Drews
This work proposes the use of Process Mining methodologies on healthcare datasets containing diagnosis information as a means to identify the course of a disease across organizations. Datasets containing diagnosis information for administrative purposes are a good candidate due to its standardized format, widespread availability and coverage. We present a methodology to preprocess, cluster and mine diagnosis information and the results of a preliminary use case with diabetes type II. Some meaningful disease courses have been found but less useful patterns do also emerge. Future work involves lowering the level of granularity chosen (ICD three digit codes) and extending the time span of the data available (three years).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Number of pages4
PublisherIEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Publication date01.07.2019
Pages354-357
Article number8857149
ISBN (print)978-1-5386-1312-2
ISBN (electronic)978-1-5386-1311-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.07.2019
Event41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC 2019: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RANGING FROM WELLNESS TO INTENSIVE CARE - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 23.06.201927.06.2019
Conference number: 41
https://embc.embs.org/2019/
https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856410 (Conference Proceeding)

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