Mining clinical process in order histories using sequential pattern mining approach

Abstract

In hospital information system, order-entry system is used to transfer the orders from doctors or nurses to other medical stuffs. Thus, since order histories will store the clinincal process of each doctors in a sequential way, reuse of such data will capture the process of each clinician. This paper applied two types of sequential pattern mining approaches to analysis of a sequential process for each care process. The empirical results show the methods enable us to capture the temporal characteristics of behavior of clinicians, which will give a subset of decision making process in clinical environments. © Springer-Verlag 2013.