Data mining is the extraction of all data of a person may it be from previous, present and future data. This also helps predict future trends and behaviors from past events to make better knowledge-driven decisions which could help businesses to be more proactive. Data mining can help organize the clustered data and make it easier for experts to find all the information they need faster than before. There are two methods given in order to understand deeper the algorithms that are being used up to this day. These two methods are; classical techniques: statistics, neighborhoods and rules, and next generation techniques: tree networks and rules.
All of this basically means that with all the previous information given, they are all summarized and arranged by categories making data easier to be found. By this you are able to “discover hidden value in your data warehouse”. This industry has benefited many industries improve their business to browse and locate a large database to find the information that they need.
With data mining, the most commonly used techniques are artificial neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms, nearest neighborhood method and rule induction. All these technologies have been used for more than a decade but with only a small volume of data. But now, these capabilities are developing to incorporate with industry-standard data warehouse and OLAP platforms in order for them to store a higher volume of data.
In healthcare, data mining is a great way to be used. Given that they may have a new patient with cancer they can use data mining to gather all the information from previous patients that they have treated and gather the facts that can help their new patient. This is called the clustering technique. This is a possible way to determine which country contains a certain type of illness or which kind of illness affects a majority amount of people in a certain time or season. Data mining is a faster way for them to get that information and may be able to formulate a possible cure. If for example the hospital wants to know more details about how to treat cancer, you can have an answer for one way of treating the cancer but you then apply a new technique of treating the cancer and you do not know the outcome, that type of data mining is called modeling.
Hospitals in the United States of America use data mining tools to gather information from laboratories where the data mining tools have algorithms that tallies results which will be processed to be analytical values to show the trends of a spreading infection. Before, they manually track infections, but they saw the idea of having IT (Information Technology) integrated with their laboratories. These tools will save a lot of time for infection control professionals to detect the patterns of an infection increasing its number of victims. (via)
Some hospitals use data mining for optimization of patient flow. They implemented computerized bed management systems and electronic medical records, large databases are created that could support improved managerial and clinical decision making to improve patient access and quality of care. (via)
Although different hospitals use different data mining tools and different models of DBMS (Database Management System), but how their HIS (Hospital Information System) processes the data and information are highly similar.
In a business point of view, data mining will truly have an advantage in the future and be a success. Before, there may have been possible errors with the way they gather data or information but now with this new technology, people will be able to gather information and come back with less or maybe even zero errors. Market basket analysis is another example of data mining for business. A store may record which kinds of footwear are sold more, may it be shoes or slippers, a data mining system may be able to predict which ones prefer shoes or slippers. They can use this example to calculate the behavior of customers which then they are able to increase their sales, make discount plans, promotions and make a store design. Another possible example for data mining in business is that when stores call random people about a certain sale, the data mining technique may already predict ahead of time which people would most likely respond to that sale. Therefore, there may be more outcomes and more benefits to that company with the help of data mining technology.
Data mining is fast therefore it saves time and man power which shows how effective it will when it is applied to an industry. It will also return less errors because it's automated thus it shows its efficiency. Heavy algorithms can be applied for analysis. Years of computation can be done in months, months in days and days in seconds. It is an industry's surveillance, its memory, its calculator, it's a part of an industry's brain.
Overall, data mining will surely be a benefit to technology.
Healthy Information
Information Technology (or IT) is a term used as an industry but actually it is the use of scanners, computers and softwares as tools for managing information for companies and businesses around the world. Today, many large companies in different industries like education, banking, telecommunication and health care have IT Departments or the MIS (Management Information System). Information Technology is one of the top priorities in a company because it is responsible for processing information, protecting information, storing information, transferring information and retrieving information, access to the information through internet and intranet which all would make a company more productive and efficient.
Health care is defined as the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. And to provide these services accurately, productively and efficiently, Information Technology could be applied.
Most of the medical hospitals and medical clinics have their own IT department to provide information management for the data that moves in and out of them. Information from the doctors, nurses, technicians, patients and maintenance personnel must be stored and be ready for retrieving and updating all the time. Basic information like name, address and contact numbers are very important details for medical hospitals and clinics. Some need information about patients' medical background; vices, drugs they have taken, previous diseases, blood type, family doctor, HMO and other medical details. And with the help of IT, these information may be processed easily. The hospital or clinic would not need to call each clinic branch or hospital of a certain patient just to get the approval they need before getting their slip to see the doctor. There would not be any long hours of waiting and the patient would be satisfied for how quickly his or her transaction went.
The average wait time for scheduling appointments for family and specialty practices is on the rise. Healthcare IT can provide the connectivity and access to information in real time, enabling timely scheduling of patient visits. IT can play a very specific role to automate processes and drive efficiency, and thereby "doing the right thing for the patient.
Before, patients would need to go back to the hospital in order for them to get the results of their MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans, CT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scans and X-ray. Since IT is highly used all over the world, these scans may be sent to the patient through email with the doctor's note attached. This way, there would be less of an inconvenience for both patient and doctor.
Websites of medical hospitals and clinics, can make it easier for everybody to view which doctor they would like to see, may it be an gynecologist, a neurologist, a general physician or a cardiologist. It would provide each and every doctor's clinic hours and general background to be posted and there would be a part of the website where you may be able log-in and reserve the time you want your appointment to be with your chosen doctor. This way the patient can assure himself or herself that they have gotten the right doctor for them and they would not have any regrets. This would truly benefit them on their day to day lives, when they are not capable to going to the hospital to reserve a schedule because they do not have the time.
There are also three legislators looking for a nationwide demonstration project that would use information technology to gather data about how to care for cancer. This project was implemented so that Community Oncology Alliance (COA) may gather oncologists from all over the world to ensure quality cancer care that would also controls costs. Information technology would be able to provide the proper research that they need inorder to accomplish this project.
There is a system that healthcare IT has, they have online diagnostics and statistics about which kind of sickness is more inherited. For example, the flu, colds, rashes, numbness, sore eyes or any kind of sickness. There would be links with regular questions that patients would normally ask when they have to flu, like, "how often do you have to drink biogesic when you have the flu?" will be forgotten and instead of having to ask the doctor personally at the hospital the website would provide that answer. This system is called an Expert System. A medical expert system is co-developed by doctors and software engineers.
Information Technology helps the health care industry in giving faster and efficient quality services for their clients but they should not always be relying to the technology because unlike physical materials like forms and reports on paper, these are not always available. Technical problems may happen, the database may crash, servers are down, no electricity, in short there is no access to the information stored to their databases. They should keep it old school, or in Filipino "Yung dating gawi." They should still keep their information physically, having printed forms and reports that are in folders and arranged in a filing cabinet so that those problems may occur there will always be a backup and it would not cause a panic for everybody. But overall, information technology has truly changed healthcare and will continue to achieve improvements as the years progress.
References:
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/ITDefinition.htm
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/it-can-relieve-bottlenecks-physicians
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/it-based-demo-project-focus-cancer-care
Health care is defined as the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. And to provide these services accurately, productively and efficiently, Information Technology could be applied.
Most of the medical hospitals and medical clinics have their own IT department to provide information management for the data that moves in and out of them. Information from the doctors, nurses, technicians, patients and maintenance personnel must be stored and be ready for retrieving and updating all the time. Basic information like name, address and contact numbers are very important details for medical hospitals and clinics. Some need information about patients' medical background; vices, drugs they have taken, previous diseases, blood type, family doctor, HMO and other medical details. And with the help of IT, these information may be processed easily. The hospital or clinic would not need to call each clinic branch or hospital of a certain patient just to get the approval they need before getting their slip to see the doctor. There would not be any long hours of waiting and the patient would be satisfied for how quickly his or her transaction went.
The average wait time for scheduling appointments for family and specialty practices is on the rise. Healthcare IT can provide the connectivity and access to information in real time, enabling timely scheduling of patient visits. IT can play a very specific role to automate processes and drive efficiency, and thereby "doing the right thing for the patient.
Before, patients would need to go back to the hospital in order for them to get the results of their MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans, CT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scans and X-ray. Since IT is highly used all over the world, these scans may be sent to the patient through email with the doctor's note attached. This way, there would be less of an inconvenience for both patient and doctor.
Websites of medical hospitals and clinics, can make it easier for everybody to view which doctor they would like to see, may it be an gynecologist, a neurologist, a general physician or a cardiologist. It would provide each and every doctor's clinic hours and general background to be posted and there would be a part of the website where you may be able log-in and reserve the time you want your appointment to be with your chosen doctor. This way the patient can assure himself or herself that they have gotten the right doctor for them and they would not have any regrets. This would truly benefit them on their day to day lives, when they are not capable to going to the hospital to reserve a schedule because they do not have the time.
There are also three legislators looking for a nationwide demonstration project that would use information technology to gather data about how to care for cancer. This project was implemented so that Community Oncology Alliance (COA) may gather oncologists from all over the world to ensure quality cancer care that would also controls costs. Information technology would be able to provide the proper research that they need inorder to accomplish this project.
There is a system that healthcare IT has, they have online diagnostics and statistics about which kind of sickness is more inherited. For example, the flu, colds, rashes, numbness, sore eyes or any kind of sickness. There would be links with regular questions that patients would normally ask when they have to flu, like, "how often do you have to drink biogesic when you have the flu?" will be forgotten and instead of having to ask the doctor personally at the hospital the website would provide that answer. This system is called an Expert System. A medical expert system is co-developed by doctors and software engineers.
Information Technology helps the health care industry in giving faster and efficient quality services for their clients but they should not always be relying to the technology because unlike physical materials like forms and reports on paper, these are not always available. Technical problems may happen, the database may crash, servers are down, no electricity, in short there is no access to the information stored to their databases. They should keep it old school, or in Filipino "Yung dating gawi." They should still keep their information physically, having printed forms and reports that are in folders and arranged in a filing cabinet so that those problems may occur there will always be a backup and it would not cause a panic for everybody. But overall, information technology has truly changed healthcare and will continue to achieve improvements as the years progress.
References:
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/ITDefinition.htm
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/it-can-relieve-bottlenecks-physicians
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/it-based-demo-project-focus-cancer-care
Ako Migsmo
Hi! I'm Conrado Miguel Ambrosio from Laguna, Philippines originally from Diliman, Quezon City. I've been annoying my parents, Joseph and Frieda Ambrosio since the 18th of September, 1986. Now, my three siblings, Pat, Abby and Ponch hates me too. LOL
I love print and web design and I make some too. You can visit my tumblelogs: Miguel Ambrosio's Tumblelog, Domo nom nom and Retrato to see my works. I'm also interested in music, photography and Volkswagens. Someday I hope to be able to create my own short film.
This blog had been empty for two years and now I'll be updating it for my Data Mining Class in De La Salle Canlubang.
I love print and web design and I make some too. You can visit my tumblelogs: Miguel Ambrosio's Tumblelog, Domo nom nom and Retrato to see my works. I'm also interested in music, photography and Volkswagens. Someday I hope to be able to create my own short film.
This blog had been empty for two years and now I'll be updating it for my Data Mining Class in De La Salle Canlubang.
