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

fYear

2009

fDate

June 30 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1158

Lastpage

1165

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NISS.2009.192

Filename

5260443