PaFloChar: An Innovating Approach to Characterise Patient Flows in Myocardial Infarction

The conference will be co-located with VITALIS, the largest eHealth event in Scandinavia. MIE2018 is the 29th Medical Informatics Europe conference and marks the 40th anniversary of the MIE conferences, since the first conference in Cambridge UK. We aim to enable close interaction and networking between an international audience of academics, health professionals, patients and industry partners.International audienceA better knowledge of patient flows would improve decision making in health planning. In this article, we propose a method to characterise patients flows and also to highlight profiles of care pathways considering times and costs. From medico-administrative data, we extracted spatio-temporal patterns. Then, we clustered time between hospitalisations and cost trajectories in order to identify profiles of change over time. This approach may support renewed management strategies