Leveraging ML for Anomaly Detection in Healthcare Data Warehouses (Published)
The rapid emergence of digitalisation leads to unprecedented growth in the generation of the healthcare sector-particularly EHRs and medical equipment data. This extended the way for challenges for integrity in managing data and anomaly detection, including fraudulent transactions, medication errors, and many more system failures. Modern healthcare data poses a challenge to traditional methods of anomaly detection due to high and complex dimensionality. Machine learning provides a strong solution, using algorithms such as Gaussian Mixture Models, One-Class SVM and deep learning algorithms such as Autoencoders, and Recurrent Neural Networks in the detection of anomalies in healthcare data warehouse settings [1]. This study reports how ML can help advance care for patients, enable the validity of the data and reduce costs through real-time monitoring, fraud detection, and early detection of diseases. Applying anomaly detection through ML would most likely bring better operational performance, patient safety, and decision-making in health care for organizations as issues of poor data quality, lack of interpretability of models, and real-time detection would be addressed [2].
Keywords: Operational Efficiency, Patient Safety, anomaly detection, fraud detection healthcare data warehouses, machine learning