Data Mining has become very popular in the healthcare industry.This is primarily because many healthcare transactions are too complex to be processed by traditional methods and data mining can make these transactions less complex and voluminous. Data mining has been used to detect fraud and abuse and also to manage customer relationships and healthcare. A disadvantage to data accessibility is that since data mining exist in many different forms such as clinics, administration and laboratories data have to be collected way before data mining can be done. Data warehousing can be a soulution to this, but it has its flaws as well. Overall, data mining can be very useful now or even in the near future in the healthcare industry.
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This brings up an interesting topic: cyberterrorism. If someone was able to hack the medical system and steal patient information records, I wonder what price individuals would be willing to pay to get their information back, much less the medical companies that would have the information out for the general public. Yes it increases the availability of information for physicians, but at the same time digitizing everything creates problems for security don't you think?
ReplyDeleteI agree with the original post, data mining can increase efficiency in the healthcare field as well as others. So many people out there are suffering from similar illness's.
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