Prognostic COPD healthcare management system

Hospital readmission rates are considered to be an important indicator of quality of care
because they may be a consequence of actions of commission or omission made during
the initial hospitalization of the patient, or as a consequence of poorly managed transition
of the patient back into the community. The negative impact on patient quality of life and
huge burden on healthcare system have made reducing hospital readmissions a central
goal of healthcare delivery and payment reform efforts.
In this project, we will focus on COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) which
is one of the leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide. This project will
design and develop a prognostic COPD healthcare management system which is a
sustainable clinical decision-support system to reduce the number of readmissions by
identifying those patients who need preventive interventions to reduce the probability of
being readmitted. Based on patient’s clinical records and discharge summary, our system would be able to determine the readmission risk profile of patients treated for COPD. Suitable
interventions could then be initiated with the objective of providing quality and timely
care that helps prevent avoidable readmission.