A comprehensive artificial intelligence framework for reducing patient rehospitalizations

Abstract

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is increasing daily. Readmissions of patients have become a significant challenge for the medical sector, adding unnecessary burden. Governments and public sectors are continuously working on the hospital readmissions reduction program (HRRP). In this research work, an AI framework has been developed to reduce patient readmissions. The accuracy of the framework has been increased by continuous refinement in feature engineering, incorporating several complex datasets. The framework analyses the different algorithms like bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), convolutional neural network (CNN), and XGBoost for prediction. This framework has shown a 92% accuracy rate during testing, showing a 37% reduction in 40-day rehospitalization rates. This reduces the overburden on hospital systems by avoiding unnecessary readmissions of patients. The system’s real-time development, scalability, management of things in an ethical manner, and long-term viability will remain as future scope.