Mining medical specialist billing patterns for health service management

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 87, Issue , 2008, Pages 105-110

  Shan, Yin ^a   Jeacocke, David ^a   Murray, D Wayne ^a   Sutinen, Alison ^a  

^a Program Review Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association rule; Fraud detection; Health data mining; Negative association rule; Open source data mining

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DIRECT ASSESSMENT; FRAUD DETECTION; HEALTH DATA; HEALTH SERVICES; HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS; NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION RULES; OPEN SOURCES; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; COMPUTER CRIME; CRIME; HEALTH INSURANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 79951749999     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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