Big Data and Analytics for Healthcare
A special issue of Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2016) | Viewed by 8778
Special Issue Editor
Interests: data science; outlier detection; data mining; machine learning; artificial intelligence; discovery science; big data; statistics; information systems; databases; semantics; ontologies; annotation; indexing; recommender systems; space science informatics; education informatics; x-informatics; computational informatics; social informatics; health informatics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growth of data in bio-medical, pharma, and health systems as well as the growing awareness of the power of analytics across public and private sector health organizations are signs that healthcare is one of the fastest-growing application areas for big data. Healthcare data systems include electronic health records, data-sharing exchanges, clinical trial results, and medical research studies, coding standards for terminology (including for treatments, causes, symptoms, and diagnoses), insurance claims, hospital admission systems, surveillance systems, and much more. The application of analytics for discovery, decision support, and benefits in healthcare has the potential to radically improve health maintenance, treatments, diagnoses, and outcomes in personalized medicine, personal health (e.g., wearable devices), and population health. Predictive analytics enables better forecasting, treatments, risk mitigation, compliance, and fraud detection. Prescriptive analytics offers an opportunity to deliver more efficient and effective treatment and health outcomes. This is especially important as longer life spans and the aging of the population place greater stresses and requirements on health systems. Wearable devices are just one example from the broader exploding big data analytics opportunity that the Internet of Things brings to healthcare, where sensors and devices are monitoring almost everything (persons, places, things, systems, and processes). This Special Issue of the journal Informatics will address the rich diversity of uses and applications of big data and analytics in healthcare. Research papers that focus on empirical studies and evaluations as well as conceptual and position papers will be considered for publication in this Special Issue.
Dr. Kirk D. Borne
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Clinical Informatics
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Predictive Analytics
- Insurance Fraud
- Risk Analytics
- Modeling
- EHR (Electronic Health Record)
- EMR (Electronic Medical Record)
- ICD10
- HIE (Health Information Exchange)
- Data Sharing
- Drug Discovery
- Ontologies
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