A recent and growing trend in the healthcare media coverage is about an application of algorithms, machine learning, big data and other such technologies in healthcare. While such technologies have large-scale applications in healthcare, one of the important application is in strengthening the accuracy of predictions in patient care and thereby helping in improving patient outcomes. Currently, there is a lot of uncertainty in health sciences and it achieves its peak when one is hospitalized. Some of the uncertainties that come to mind are, what are the chances that the patient would be successfully discharged from the hospital in a given number of days? What are the chances that one would need a re-hospitalization for the same disease?
What are the chances of cure? etc. While such questions are easy to ask, they can only rarely be answered scientifically. The existing medical knowledge,…
