HLTH230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Data Mining, Big Data, Rosiglitazone
13 Apr 2018
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Hlth 230 unit 4 reading 3 big data mining. Lots of money has gone into digitizing patients med records over the past decade. This should provide lots of data to dig through to find evidence to improve care. Data from records is hard to access and difficult to make sense of. Patient privacy, data security are increasing and not addressed. Spent last 20 years pulling meaning out of data. He looked to find the risk of heart attacks for patients on diabetes meds (avandia: drug was pulled off the shelf after the study. His research has also found ways to identify early signs of domestic abuse, and revealed the differences of the patterns of people with autism. You ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t to ha(cid:448)e good (cid:272)are ((cid:373)a(cid:374)y drs do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) (cid:373)a(cid:374)y patients have a certain disease or how long their stays are)
