Using Machine Learning to Identify No-Show Telemedicine Encounters in a New York City Hospital

Wanting Cui, Joseph Finkelstein

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Abstract

No-show visits are a serious problem for healthcare centers. It costs a major hospital over 15 million dollars annually. The goal of this paper was to build machine learning models to identify potential no-show telemedicine visits and to identify significant factors that affect no-show visits. 257,293 telemedicine sessions and 152,164 unique patients were identified in Mount Sinai Health System between March 2020 and December 2020. 5,124 (2%) of these sessions were no-show encounters. Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) with under-sampling was the best machine learning model to identify no-show visits using telemedicine service. The accuracy was 0.74, with an AUC score of 0.68. Patients with previous no-show encounters, non-White or non-Asian patients, and patients living in Bronx and Manhattan were all important factors for no-show encounters. Furthermore, providers' specialties in psychiatry and nutrition, and social workers were more susceptible to higher patient no-show rates.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare
EditorsJohn Mantas, Parisis Gallos, Emmanouil Zoulias, Arie Hasman, Mowafa S. Househ, Marianna Diomidous, Joseph Liaskos, Martha Charalampidou
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages328-331
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781643682907
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume295
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Keywords

  • No-show visits
  • supervised machine learning
  • telemedicine

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