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Identification of Sufferers of Rare Diseases Using Medical Claims Data
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Patients who suffer from rare diseases can be hard to diagnose for prolonged periods of time. In the process, they are often subjected to tentative treatments for ailments they do not have, risking an escalation of their actual condition and side… read more… Patients who suffer from rare diseases can be hard to diagnose for prolonged periods of time. In the … precise diagnoses, mitigating the costs of unnecessary care and improving patients’ outcomes. Objective To identify sufferers of a rare and hard to diagnose diseases by detecting sequential patterns … -
Searching for Complex Patterns Using Disjunctive Anomaly Detection
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Modern biosurveillance data contains thousands of unique time series defined across various categorical dimensions (zipcode, age groups, hospitals). Many algorithms are overly specific (tracking each time series independently would often miss early… read more… simultaneously (e.g. food poisoning and flu) making it hard to detect and characterize the individual events. We … simultaneously (e.g. food poisoning and flu) making it hard to detect and characterize the individual events. We …