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Essays On Predictive And Prescriptive Analytics For Risk Monitoring And Population Screening In Healthcare Management, Yan He

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Due to increased aging populations and changes in lifestyles, we have witnessed an increased prevalence of various chronic and acute diseases and a drastic rise in healthcare expenditures in recent years. It is of paramount importance for public health to promote regular screening and close monitoring to detect the early onset of diseases. On the other hand, the increasing availability of healthcare data and advancement in data analytics offer a huge potential to facilitate this goal. We can analyze the vast amount of data and recommend more personalized diagnostic tests after receiving results and signals from screening tests and monitoring …