“Objectives: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System is among the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Many VA enrollees are dual users of Medicare, and little research has examined methods to most accurately predict which veterans will be mostly reliant on VA services in the future. This study examined whether machine learning methods can better predict future reliance on VA primary care compared with traditional statistical methods…”
“Takeaway Points
Reliance on the Veterans Affairs Health Care System for outpatient services is a key metric for informing resource allocation and current operational priorities, including efforts to compete for veteran demand amid increasing healthcare options…” Read the paper here.
Source: Does Machine Learning Improve Prediction of VA Primary Care Reliance? – By Edwin S. Wong, PhD; Linnaea Schuttner, MD, MS; and Ashok Reddy, MD, MSc, January 15, 2020. AJMC.
