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 Volume 8, Issue 9 (September 2021), Pages: 29-38

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: A framework for predicting employee health risks using ensemble model

 Author(s): Nicholas Khin-Whai Chan 1, Angela Siew-Hoong Lee 1, *, Zuraini Zainol 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Sunway, Malaysia
 2Department of Computer Science, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-2372

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.09.004

 Abstract:

Through the phenomenon of data, big data and data analytics have provided an opportunity to collect, store, process, analyze and visualize an immense amount of information. Healthcare is recognized as one of the most information-intensive sectors. An urge to explore analytics has been sparked by the rapid growth of data within the healthcare sector. Most employers in Malaysia provide medical benefits that are included in the medical insurance plan for their employees. Data collected such as the history of medical claims are stored with the HR (Human Resource) which contributes to the potential of analyzing and recognizing trends within medical claims to better understand the use and overall health of the employee population. Patients with higher risk will generally convert into patients with high costs. Hence, early intervention of these patients will allow employers to potentially minimize costs and plan preventative steps. In predictive analysis, Decision Trees and Regression are typical techniques applied. The proposed framework combines an ensemble technique known as Stacking. As opposed to a single predictive model, an ensemble predictive model would yield better performance and accuracy. The objective of this paper is therefore to review current practices and past research within the healthcare sector while suggesting a practical framework for classification ensemble modeling. Preliminary findings indicated that an ensemble model can produce higher predictive accuracy and performance than a single model. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Data analytics, Predictive analysis, Ensemble modeling, Stacking, Framework

 Article History: Received 16 December 2020, Received in revised form 20 April 2021, Accepted 10 June 2021

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Chan NKW, Lee ASH, and Zainol Z (2021). A framework for predicting employee health risks using ensemble model. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(9): 29-38

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