Hospital Management Based on Data Mining

A hospital information system (HIS) in a large hospital has been introduced to store not only the patient records, but also all the logs of laboratory or radiological examinations and clinical actions. Thus, through data mining, these stored data can be used not only for decision support but also for hospital management. In this paper, we applied several exploratory data analysis techniques and generalized linear model to data extracted from HIS, which can be viewed as a first step to data mining for HIS. The results show several interesting results for hospital management, which suggests that the reuse of stored data will give a powerful tool to support a long-period management of a university hospital.