Title :
Data Mining Facilitates e-Patients through e-Healthcare: An Empirical Study
Author :
Rahaman, Sophia ; Biju, Seena
Author_Institution :
Manipal Univ., Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
fDate :
June 30 2009-July 2 2009
Abstract :
The healthcare environment is generally dasiainformation richpsila but dasiaknowledge poorpsila. The convenience and ease of Internet is mesmerizing the healthcare sector setting the trend for e-healthcare with e-patients. There is a wealth of data available within the healthcare systems but they lack effective analysis tools to discover hidden relationships and trends in data. Data mining has found various applications in business and scientific domains and is conveying the advantages can be applied to healthcare. Valuable knowledge can be discovered with the application of data mining techniques to facilitate e-patients for disease specific better care and understanding through e-healthcare.
Keywords :
Internet; data mining; health care; medical information systems; Internet; association rule; data mining; e-healthcare; e-patients; Banking; Business; Communications technology; Consumer electronics; Continuing education; Data mining; Diseases; Internet; Medical services; Technology management; Association Rule; Classification; Clustering; Data Mining; Education; Knowledge; e-Healthcare; e-Patient;
Conference_Titel :
New Trends in Information and Service Science, 2009. NISS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3687-3
DOI :
10.1109/NISS.2009.192
