Do We Need Another CT Scanner?-The Pilot Study of the Adoption of an Evolutionary Algorithm to Investment Decision Making in Healthcare.

: The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of the adoption of a machine learning (ML) algorithm in support of the investment decisions regarding high cost medical devices based on available clinical and epidemiological evidence. : Following a literature search, the set of epidemiological and clinical need predictors was established. Both the data from The Central Statistical Office and The National Health Fund were used.