Data Mining, an Approach for Developing the Health Domain

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1 Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Medical School, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3 Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran

5 Health Care Management, Faculty of Health Baqiyatallah University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, data mining as the process of arrangement and classifications of voluminous data is one of the most important technics for studying and analyzing data in different organizations and domains. Data mining is among technological improvements towards data managing. Also, the wide use of information systems and databases has converted its merging with traditional methods into a necessity. Due to the existence of the large datasets in health-care organizations, data mining process has become necessary towards the automatic summarization of data and the extraction of the stored information and detection of the pattern from data. As nowadays the wide volume of data is daily obtained during care and treatment processes, analyzing them in order to discover the patterns and new science that can be resulted to upgrade health has been extremely inconspicuous. Therefore, the purpose of the present research is studying strategies and technics of data mining as one of the most important approaches in the development of health domains.

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International Journal of Medical Reviews
Volume 1, Issue 4
January 2015
Pages 151-155

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History

  • Receive Date: 28 October 2014
  • Revise Date: 23 December 2014
  • Accept Date: 23 December 2014

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