Text Mining Techniques for Healthcare Provider Quality Determination: Methods for Rank Comparisons
Text Mining Techniques for Healthcare Provider Quality Determination: Methods for Rank Comparisons

Author: Cerrito, Patricia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1605667536

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The quest for quality in healthcare has led to attempts to develop models to determine which providers have the highest quality in healthcare, with the best outcomes for patients. Text Mining Techniques for Healthcare Provider Quality Determination: Methods for Rank Comparisons discusses the general practice of defining a patient severity index in order to make risk adjustments to compare patient outcomes across multiple providers with the intent of ranking the providers in terms of quality. This innovative reference source, valuable to medical practitioners, researchers, and academicians, brings together research from across the globe focusing on how severity indices are generally defined when determining the best outcome for patient

Web Data Mining and the Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems
Web Data Mining and the Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems

Author: Sreedhar, G.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1522518789

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Websites are a central part of today’s business world; however, with the vast amount of information that constantly changes and the frequency of required updates, this can come at a high cost to modern businesses. Web Data Mining and the Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems is a key reference source on decision support systems in view of end user accessibility and identifies methods for extraction and analysis of useful information from web documents. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as semantic web, machine learning, and expert systems, this book is ideally designed for web developers, internet users, online application developers, researchers, and faculty.

The Remington Registry of Outstanding Professionals 2011-2012
The Remington Registry of Outstanding Professionals 2011-2012

Author: J Alex Ficarra

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 1477263780

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Undoubtedly growing up during the Vietnam War, water gate and gas shortages can have a profound effect on a child. Also being the son of immigrant parents most certainly can lead to a traumatizing clash of cultures and the understanding of right and wrong. With that being said the Remington Company gave me the honor of a lifetime by letting me express my thoughts in unison with telling the brilliant stories of professionals around the world. As I wrote endlessly 24 hours a day I realized that our world is full of hope and real promise. I realized that it wasnt about war, ideology and the pursuit of global domination. I realized that in the pages of this great book great things were about to happen if only these stories can be made public. I realized that I had the opportunity of a lifetime by expressing the Humanitarian attributes that these professionals continually made. After many years of writing I realized that the Remington Company had a distinct and noble purpose and perhaps we could not change the present but we could certainly try to change our future. With that we created our Mentorship Program which gets these prolific stories out to the children. We wrote the stories with zest but never crossed the line of respect or dignity. We wished to capture the hearts of our audience and prove to them that giving was not an option but more so our duty as life forms on our planet. Today our book has a theme Inspiring the youth of America. This theme was our way of telling the world Lets hold hands and prepare our children for a better life. today I continue to write for the Registry. My life has irrevocably changed for the better. I volunteer for any thing all the time. I enjoy moments of quiet and the appreciation of our environment. I read these biographies in amazement as everyone else does and it never seems to get uneventful. Either way I sincerely hope you enjoy these biographies and use them to strengthen your spirit and confidence about our existence as a species on this planet. I patiently wait for divine intervention in order to write my next biography and am happy to serve the brilliant members of the Remington Registry of Outstanding Professionals.

Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining: Studies and Frameworks
Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining: Studies and Frameworks

Author: Cerrito, Patricia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-02-28

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1615207244

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"Because so much data is now becoming readily available to investigate health outcomes, it is important to examine just how statistical models are used to do this. This book studies health outcomes research using data mining techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery
Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery

Author: Panos M. Pardalos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1461450942

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This book presents some recent systems engineering and mathematical tools for health care along with their real-world applications by health care practitioners and engineers. Advanced approaches, tools, and algorithms used in operating room scheduling and patient flow are covered. State-of-the-art results from applications of data mining, business process modeling, and simulation in healthcare, together with optimization methods, form the core of the volume. Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery illustrates the increased need of partnership between engineers and health care professionals. This book will benefit researchers and practitioners in health care delivery institutions, staff members and professionals of specialized hospital units, and lecturers and graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics, business administration and health care.

Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development

Author: Hakikur Rahman

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1466640790

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"This book provides an overview of data mining techniques under an ethical lens, investigating developments in research best practices and examining experimental cases to identify potential ethical dilemmas in the information and communications technology sector"--Provided by publisher.

Data Mining in Dynamic Social Networks and Fuzzy Systems
Data Mining in Dynamic Social Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Author: Bhatnagar, Vishal

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-06-30

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1466642149

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Many organizations, whether in the public or private sector, have begun to take advantage of the tools and techniques used for data mining. Utilizing data mining tools, these organizations are able to reveal the hidden and unknown information from available data. Data Mining in Dynamic Social Networks and Fuzzy Systems brings together research on the latest trends and patterns of data mining tools and techniques in dynamic social networks and fuzzy systems. With these improved modern techniques of data mining, this publication aims to provide insight and support to researchers and professionals concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development.

Clinical Text Mining
Clinical Text Mining

Author: Hercules Dalianis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3319785036

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This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records. It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not require any technical or medical background knowledge. The remaining eight chapters are more technical in nature and describe various medical classifications and terminologies such as ICD diagnosis codes, SNOMED CT, MeSH, UMLS, and ATC. Chapters 5-10 cover basic tools for natural language processing and information retrieval, and how to apply them to clinical text. The difference between rule-based and machine learning-based methods, as well as between supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, are also explained. Next, ethical concerns regarding the use of sensitive patient records for research purposes are discussed, including methods for de-identifying electronic patient records and safely storing patient records. The book’s closing chapters present a number of applications in clinical text mining and summarise the lessons learned from the previous chapters. The book provides a comprehensive overview of technical issues arising in clinical text mining, and offers a valuable guide for advanced students in health informatics, computational linguistics, and information retrieval, and for researchers entering these fields.

Emerging Technologies of Text Mining: Techniques and Applications
Emerging Technologies of Text Mining: Techniques and Applications

Author: do Prado, Hercules Antonio

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2007-10-31

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1599043750

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"This book provides the most recent technical information related to the computational models of the text mining process, discussing techniques within the realms of classification, association analysis, information extraction, and clustering. Offering an innovative approach to the utilization of textual information mining to maximize competitive advantage, it will provide libraries with the defining reference on this topic"--Provided by publisher.