Healthcare informatics

Week 5

Select ONE of the following discussion questions to respond to:

Chapter readings discussed both discovery and predictive techniques for data mining. Which would offer the “best” type of information for healthcare delivery? Why?

OR 

Do you feel the decision support process described in chapter reading would be an effective method for your workplace?

Answer: 

Data mining is the extraction of unknown information that is useful from data. In healthcare, it supports the transformation of raw data into important decision making information with minimal intervention by the user who may be the hospital administrator or physician. It is used in the prediction of trends, opportunities, and threats in a firm, offers real-time alerts to situations and used to find correlations on illnesses and other variables (Raghupathi, 2016). There are discovery and predictive techniques used in data mining.…click below to purchase the full answer at $5