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  • Health Informatics
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Telehealth services can reduce healthcare disparities, but are often not covered by insurance, creating a data gap.
  • Identifying eligible patients for telehealth is challenging due to the lack of target variables for classification.
  • This necessitates unsupervised classification methods for telehealth service recipient identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and validate a novel approach, Hierarchical Decision Tree for Telehealth Classification and Analysis (HDTTCA), for identifying patients eligible for telehealth services.
  • To address the unsupervised classification problem in telehealth service implementation.
  • To compare the performance of HDTTCA against traditional logistic regression models.

Main Methods:

  • The HDTTCA approach involves data preprocessing, decision tree model building, and attribute importance prediction.
  • Utilized a large dataset from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) from 2012.
  • Employed a systematic process to identify telehealth-eligible patients and generate classification rules.

Main Results:

  • The HDTTCA approach identified 3.56% of patients as eligible for telehealth services in 2012.
  • HDTTCA demonstrated superior performance in accuracy, specificity, and precision compared to logistic regression.
  • The decision tree model generated by HDTTCA provides clear and interpretable rules for patient classification.

Conclusions:

  • HDTTCA is an effective and valid method for classifying patients eligible for telehealth services.
  • The approach offers a competitive and understandable alternative to logistic regression for telehealth patient identification.
  • HDTTCA provides a suitable framework for integrating telehealth into health insurance schemes by enabling unsupervised classification.