Using Machine Learning To Predict Hospital Readmission

At AI Australia, we believe everyone needs their daily dose of predictive analytics, so we took our data skills and machine learning methods to a rural health district in NSW battling the high rates of unexpected hospital readmissions. Although doctors and clinicians review patient information to the best of their ability before discharge, there are often little to no signs that patients are of risk of readmission. This pre-existing problem costs enormous amounts of money and resources to manage. The health district needed a solution to reduce hospital readmissions by automatically detecting potential risks and identifying groups of patients with a high rate of readmission.