Disease Risk Rule Analysis of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System in Beijing, China

Objective: With data drawn from Beijing’s New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS), the rule characteristics of disease risks are mined in terms of risk factors and risk measurements aiming to discover valuable knowledge within the vast amounts of Beijing’s NRCMS data and provide administrators with a more scientific basis for decision making. Methodology:The association rule algorithm is utilized to recover both potentially valuable knowledge and decision-making information from Beijing’s NRCMS data. Results: The main objects of healthcare in Beijing from 2012 to 2014 include: circulatory diseases in patients 41 years of age or older, pediatric respiratory disease prevention, reproductive healthcare for women of childbearing age, and the prevention and treatment of diabetes in female patients; in county-level hospitals with a relatively low average level of consumption, injuries still resulted in high expenses; the primary post-NRCMS reimbursement level-3 and level-4 high-risk groups were patients of...