News-Medical.Net July 11, 2022
Healthcare institutions produce large amounts of data in the form of electronic medical records, clinical trial records, billing, customer records management databases, etc. Scientific publications add huge amounts of information each second.
Such data is non-uniform and can be either structured or unstructured. Data that can be mined to produce invaluable insights into disease, prevention, and treatment is waiting to be recognized, processed, and used.
Introduction
Data in healthcare can be pooled and analyzed to understand what patterns are evident and to analyze what drives those patterns so that preventive or therapeutic action can be taken as needed. This can help improve life expectancy or develop tests to detect and identify disease early, as well as provide treatment at a...