August 2019
Hospital readmissions occur for almost 20 percent of hospitalized patients in the U.S. Such readmissions result in significantly higher expenses for the hospital and the patient. A study published in the journal JAMA Network Open in March 2019 revealed a viable solution to reducing hospital readmission rates: machine learning. The University of Maryland School of Medicine research team analyzed data from more than 14,000 patients from three University of Maryland Medical System hospitals.
