Objective: According to RFM model theory of customer relationship management, data mining technology was used to group the chronic infectious disease patients to explore the effect of customer segmentation on the management of patients with different characteristics. Methods: 170,246 outpatient data was extracted from the hospital management information system (HIS) during January 2016 to July 2016, 43,448 data was formed after the data cleaning. K-Means clustering algorithm was used to

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... patients with chronic infectious diseases, and then C5.0 decision tree algorithm was used to predict the situation of patients with chronic infectious diseases. Results: Male patients accounted for 58.7%, patients living in Shanghai accounted for 85.6%. The average age of patients is 45.88 years old, the high incidence age is 25 to 65 years old. Patients was gathered into three categories: 1) Clusters 1-Important patients (4786 people, 11.72%, R = 2.89, F = 11.72, M = 84,302.95); 2) Clustering 2-Major patients (23,103, 53.2%, R = 5.22, F = 3.45, M = 9146.39); 3) Cluster 3-Potential patients (15,559 people, 35.8%, R = 19.77, F = 1.55, M = 1739.09). C5.0 decision tree algorithm was used to predict the treatment situation of patients with chronic infectious diseases, the final treatment time (weeks) is an important predictor, the accuracy rate is 99.94% verified by the confusion model. Conclusion: Medical institutions should strengthen the adherence education for patients with chronic infectious diseases, establish the chronic infectious diseases and customer relationship management database, take the initiative to help them improve treatment adherence. Chinese governments at all levels should speed up the construction of hospital information, establish the chronic infectious disease database, strengthen the blocking of mother-to-child transmission, to effectively curb chronic infectious diseases, reduce disease burden and mortality.