Urko Aguirre Larracoechea

1. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
Urko Aguirre Larracoechea
Research Unit, Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo,
OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Biostatistician
BD-Chronic Care Modelling:
measuring impact of comorbidities by
Big-Data approaches

2. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
• Solid reasearch lines
– Risk-stratification in acute and chronic conditions
– Telemedicine (COPD)
– Health services reserach: outcomes measurement
• Emerging topics
– Biomarkers: COPD, heart failure
– Big Data analytics
OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Main research topics

3. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
• Ageing population Increasing prevalence of the chronic
diseases and comorbidities.
• Increase usage of health resources High burden and costs.
• Key policies:
– To reduce emergency admissions
– To reduce visits to the General Practitioner.
– Manage individual, high impact diseases
• Methodology: risk-stratification/case finding techniques.
BD-Chronic Care Modelling:
measuring impact of comorbidities by Big-Data
approaches

4. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
• Big Data ~ data larger than the capacity of the computer.
• Over the years, we have all kinds of effective methods for
classification, clustering, and regression
• However, mining useful information remains difficult for some
real-world applications
• APPROACHES:
– Parallelize existing (single-machine) algorithms
– Design new algorithms particularly for distributed settings
BD-Chronic Care Modelling:
measuring impact of comorbidities by Big-Data
approaches

5. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
BD-Chronic Care Modelling:
measuring impact of comorbidities by Big-Data
approaches
Source: KW Foundation

6. Refbio Fase IIRefbio Fase II
• OBJECTIVES:
– To measure the impact of comorbidities in health resources
in terms of hospital admissions, readmissions and visits to
the Emergency Room and General Practitioner.
- To develop more robust algorithms (e.g., parallelized in
distributed systems) for chronic care modelling.
BD-Chronic Care Modelling:
measuring impact of comorbidities by Big-Data
approaches

7. Thank you !! Merci!
www.refbio.eu
Urko Aguirre Larracoechea
urko.aguirrelarracoechea@osakidetza.eus
Programa financiado por el FEDER