Big Data Compliance for Innovative Clinical Models

Abstract

Abstract In the healthcare sector, information is the most important aspect, and the human body in particular is the major source of data production: as a result, the new challenge for world healthcare is to take advantage of these huge amounts of data de-structured among themselves. In order to benefit from this advantage, technology offers a solution called Big Data Analysis that allows the management of large amounts of data of a different nature and coming from different sources of a “computerized” healthcare, as there are considerable changes made by the input of digital technology in all major health areas. Clinical intelligence consists of all the analytical methods made possible through the use of computer tools, in all the processes and disciplines of extraction and transformation of crude clinical data into significant insights, new purposes and knowledge that provide greater clinical efficacy and best health pronouncements about past performance, current operations and future events. It can therefore be stated that clinical intelligence, through patient data analysis, will become a standard operating procedure that will address all aspects of care delivery. The purpose of this paper is to present clinical intelligence approaches through Data Mining and Process Mining, showing the differences between these two methodologies applied to perform “real process” extraction to be compared with the procedures in the corporate compliance template (the so called “Model 231”) by “conformance checking”.