Resource Modeling and Analysis of Regional Public Health Care Data by Means of Knowledge Technologies

Abstract

This paper proposes a selection of knowledge technologies for health care planning and decision support in regional-level management of Slovenian public health care. Data mining and statistical techniques were used to analyze databases collected by a regional Public Heath Institute. Specifically, we addressed the problem of directing patients from primary health care centers to specialists. Decision support tools were used for resource modeling in terms of availability and accessibility of public health services for the population. Specifically, we analyzed organisational aspects of public health resources in one Sovenian region (Celje) with the goal to identify the areas that are atypical in terms of availability and accessibility of public health services.