DATA MINING CLUSTERING: A HEALTHCARE APPLICATION
Dominick Doust, Zack Walsh · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2011
The exponential growth of data in recent years necessitates the development of new methods that can handle massive amounts of stored data and information.This is particularly true in the healthcare industry.A popular approach that was proven efficient in analyzing data is Data Mining (DM).DM aims to find patterns in databases and to facilitate decision-making according to those patterns.We suggest that the use of DM can help physicians and healthcare administrators make better decisions and even save lives.