Data Mining In Health Care Environment

Enhancing Healthcare with Data Mining and Knowledge Management

Abstract

The role of data mining in health care hasbecome the subject matter of wide and varied research activities [Kaur H.et.al., 2006]. Extraction of useful information from health care data offers alot of challenges in terms of storage, dissemination, privacy and security ofpatient data. While the privacy issue is more of a legal and ethical issuerather than technological issue, data mining offers broader community-basedgains that enable and improve healthcare forecasting, analysis, andvisualisation [Payton F.C., 2003]. Guided use of technologies like databasesystems, data mining and knowledge management can contribute a lot to decisionsupport systems in health care.