Japan Association for Medical Informatics

[AP3-E1-1-03] An Analysis on Remote Healthcare Data for Future Health Risk Prediction to Reduce Health Management Cost

*Shaira Tabassum1, Masuda Begum Sampa2, Rafiqul Islam Maruf3, Fumihiko Yokota4, Naoki Nakashima3, Ashir Ahmed2 (1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Bangladesh, 2. Department of Advanced Information Technology, Kyushu University, Japan, 3. Medical Information Center, Kyushu University Hospital, Japan, 4. Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University, Japan)

Remote Healthcare, Portable Health Clinic (PHC), Data Preprocessing, Categorical Variables, Encoding

Machine Learning (ML) is tremendously enhancing the healthcare sector by continuously collaborating in diverse healthcare circumstances. It explores thousands of data beyond human capability, analyzes medical conditions, and suggests outcomes with clinical insights. Still, a large segment of the population does not get quality healthcare due to insufficient medical facilities and socio-economic conditions. Thus, the Portable Health Clinic (PHC) aims to make technology-enabled smart healthcare affordable to the unreached population. The paper reports a comparative analysis of seven supervised learning algorithms to predict the possible health risk in future using the remote healthcare data provided by PHC. The survey and clinical data of PHC have been used in this work to predict the triage condition that a patient may have later. Four categorical variable encoding and two missing value handling techniques have been applied for preprocessing and preparing the healthcare data. The preprocessed PHC data has achieved 90.34% accuracy on the Random Forest Classifier. Thus, this pre-informing health service will reduce health management costs and allow people to take necessary mitigating actions to minimize health risks.