A Review of Analytics and Clinical Informatics in Health Care

Abstract

Federal investment in health information technology has incentivized the adoption of electronic health record systems by physicians and health care organizations; the result has been a massive rise in the collection of patient data in electronic form (i.e. "Big Data"). Health care systems have leveraged Big Data for quality and performance improvements using analytics-the systematic use of data combined with quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to make decisions. Analytics have been utilized in various aspects of health care including predictive risk assessment, clinical decision support, home health monitoring, finance, and resource allocation. Visual analytics is one example of an analytics technique with an array of health care and research applications that are well described in the literature. The proliferation of Big Data and analytics in health care has spawned a growing demand for clinical informatics professionals who can bridge the gap between the medical and information sciences.

Exploring the Potential of Predictive Analytics and Big Data in Emergency Care

“…[19][20][21][22][23] Many large EDs experience more than 100,000 patient visits per year, yielding a vast amount of real-world observational data. However, accessing this potential resource involves significant logistic challenges.…”

Challenges Smartphone’s Big Data in HealthCare Systems

“…Big Data techniques starts with Mining, pattern recognition, natural language processing, visual analysis and all mathematical analytics and algorithmic based processing of data resources to generate descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models to analyze and derive insight from unstructured, semi-structured, and structured text data [11] [13]. While The growth of the 3v's of Smartphone data will continue to pose challenges with real-time techniques.…”

Online Treatment Compliance Checking for Clinical Pathways

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“…Health-care organizations seek for a better control of their medical services not only to satisfy treatment requirements but also to leverage cost-saving opportunities through standardization of treatment behaviors in clinical pathways (CPs) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. With this respect, compliance checking is important as it ensures that treatment behaviors of a healthcare organization act in accordance with the established CP specifications [7].…”