| CPC G16H 50/30 (2018.01) [G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01)] | 9 Claims |
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1. A method comprising:
performing, by one or more processors, the steps of:
identifying a plurality of medical codes corresponding to patient billing data, the plurality of medical codes including a first medical code corresponding to a risk for bleeding and a second medical code corresponding to existence of atrial fibrillation;
generating a candidate classification model for a target therapy by selecting a set of medical codes from the plurality of medical codes and assigning a weight to each medical code selected, the target therapy being a left atrial appendage (“LAA”) occlusion therapy;
receiving patient billing data for a plurality of patients, the patient billing data including associations between one or more patients of the plurality of patients and one or more medical codes of the plurality of medical codes;
applying the candidate classification model to the patient billing data to generate a set of target therapy scores, each target therapy score of the set of target therapy scores corresponding to a patient of the plurality of patients and calculated based on weights for one or more medical codes associated with the patient, wherein the set of target therapy scores includes (i) a first score indicating that the corresponding patient has previously received the LAA occlusion therapy, (ii) a second score indicating that the corresponding patient is at a high risk of stroke, and (iii) a third score indicating that the corresponding patient is not at a high risk of stroke; and
providing target therapy candidate data generated based on the set of target therapy scores;
based on the provided target therapy candidate data, identifying a selected patient from the plurality of patients, the target therapy score corresponding to the selected patient being the second score indicating that the selected patient is at the high risk of stroke; and
after identifying the selected patient, implanting a LAA occluder into the LAA of the selected patient to occlude the LAA of the selected patient.
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