The continuously increasing cost of the US healthcare system has received significant
attention. Central to the ideas aimed at curbing this trend is the use of technology in the form …

Developing holistic predictive modeling solutions for risk prediction is extremely challenging
in healthcare informatics. Risk prediction involves integration of clinical factors with socio …

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a serious chronic condition often leading to 50% mortality
within 5 years. Improper treatment and post-discharge care of CHF patients leads to repeat …

In recent years, healthcare spending has risen and become a burden on governments
especially in the US. One of the reasons for this increase is hospital readmissions …

In this work, we define procedure paths as the sequence of procedures that a given patient
undertakes to reach a desired treatment. In addition to its value as a mean to inform the …

Healthcare spending has been increasing in the last few decades. One of the main reasons
for this increase is hospital readmissions, which is defined as a re-hospitalization of a patient …

ABSTRACT Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization,
and studies show that many of these admissions are readmissions within a short window of …

Aortic dissection is a life threatening condition of the aorta, characterized by separation of its
wall layers into a true and false lumen. A subset of patients require immediate surgical or …

Mortality and hospital readmission are serious problems in healthcare, due to their negative
impact on patients in specific and hospitals in general. Expenditure on healthcare has been …

In this paper, we describe a novel framework to recommend personalized intervention
strategies to minimize 30-day readmission risk for heart failure (HF) patients, as they move …