Title :
Emerging applications of data mining for healthcare management - A critical review
Author :
Sharma, Ashok ; Mansotra, Vibhakar
Author_Institution :
Deptt. of Comput. Sci. & IT, Univ. of Jammu, Jammu, India
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a critical review of the various research currently being undergoing in applications of data mining for healthcare management. The objective of this study is to explore new and emerging areas of data mining techniques used in healthcare management. The applications included in this paper are infection control surveillance, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, healthcare resource management, customer relationship management, fraud and anomaly detection, healthcare administration, hospital management and public health. The data mining goals achieved, functions performed and algorithms used in these applications have been analyzed in this paper.
Keywords :
data mining; health care; medical information systems; anomaly detection; customer relationship management; data mining techniques; disease diagnosis; disease treatment; fraud detection; healthcare administration; healthcare resource management; hospital management; infection control surveillance; public health; Data mining; Diseases; Hospitals; Organizations; Public healthcare; Surveillance; association; classification; crisp-dm; customer relationship management; data mining surveillance system; diagnosis; fraud detection; length of stay; public health;
Conference_Titel :
Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Delhi
Print_ISBN :
978-93-80544-10-6
DOI :
10.1109/IndiaCom.2014.6828163
