Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare Contributor(s): Natarajan, Prashant (Author), Frenzel, John C. (Author), Smaltz, Detlev H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1032097167 ISBN-13: 9781032097169 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Hospital Administration & Care - Medical | Family & General Practice - Business & Economics | Industries - Service |
Dewey: 610.285 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 7" W x 10" (0.82 lbs) 210 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights - both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization's day-to-day operations is becoming vital to hospitals and health systems ability to survive and prosper. One of the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics has been the ability to deal with the sheer variety and volume of disparate healthcare data and the increasing need to derive veracity and value out of it. Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare investigates how healthcare organizations can leverage this tapestry of big data to discover new business value, use cases, and knowledge as well as how big data can be woven into pre-existing business intelligence and analytics efforts. This book focuses on teaching you how to:
The variety of data in healthcare spans multiple business workflows, formats (structured, un-, and semi-structured), integration at point of care/need, and integration with existing knowledge. In order to deal with these realities, the authors propose new approaches to creating a knowledge-driven learning organization-based on new and existing strategies, methods and technologies. This book will address the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them. |