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Data Mining Concepts

Data mining is the process of using mathematical analysis to discover patterns and trends in large data sets that can then be used to build models. These models can be applied to scenarios like forecasting, risk analysis, recommendations, and detecting sequences. The data mining process involves defining problems, preparing, exploring, and analyzing data, building models, and deploying results. In healthcare, data mining has identified trends like patients getting sick from staying in the same hospital room, and can help improve care, lower costs, and reduce fraud. It offers benefits to providers, patients, organizations, researchers, and insurers.

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Data Mining Concepts

Data mining is the process of using mathematical analysis to discover patterns and trends in large data sets that can then be used to build models. These models can be applied to scenarios like forecasting, risk analysis, recommendations, and detecting sequences. The data mining process involves defining problems, preparing, exploring, and analyzing data, building models, and deploying results. In healthcare, data mining has identified trends like patients getting sick from staying in the same hospital room, and can help improve care, lower costs, and reduce fraud. It offers benefits to providers, patients, organizations, researchers, and insurers.

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Data Mining Concepts

Data mining is the process of discovering actionable information from large sets of data. Data
mining uses mathematical analysis to derive patterns and trends that exist in data. Typically, these patterns
cannot be discovered by traditional data exploration because the relationships are too complex or because
there is too much data.
These patterns and trends can be collected and defined as a data mining model. Mining models can be
applied to specific scenarios, such as:

Forecasting: Estimating sales, predicting server loads or server downtime

Risk and probability: Choosing the best customers for targeted mailings, determining the
probable break-even point for risk scenarios, assigning probabilities to diagnoses or other
outcomes

Recommendations: Determining which products are likely to be sold together, generating


recommendations

Finding sequences: Analyzing customer selections in a shopping cart, predicting next likely
events

Grouping: Separating customers or events into cluster of related items, analyzing and predicting
affinities

Building a mining model is part of a larger process that includes everything from asking questions
about the data and creating a model to answer those questions, to deploying the model into a working
environment. This process can be defined by using the following six basic steps:

1. Defining the Problem


2. Preparing Data
3. Exploring Data
4. Building Models
5. Exploring and Validating Models
6. Deploying and Updating Models

Data Mining in Healthcare Setting


By examining and analyzing stored patient data, expert data miners can uncover important trends.
For example, when a Washington, D.C., hospital wanted to know why its patients were getting sick soon
after discharge, data mining revealed that patients who had stayed in the same hospital room later
developed the same infection. This is just one example of how data mining can help identify and solve
problems in health care.
Data miners commonly use the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) to
study the data. This process involves six steps:

Business understandingidentify the projects objectives and requirements from a business


perspective and define the data mining problem.

Data understandingcollect the initial data, become familiar with it, and look for any data
quality problems.

Data preparationbuild the final dataset from the raw data.

Modelinguse data mining software to analyze.

Evaluationevaluate the achievement of the projects objectives by comparing data mining


models and their results using a common yardstick.

Deploymentimplement the data mining results.


Benefits of Healthcare Data Mining

Data mining in health care has become increasingly popular because it offers benefits to care
providers, patients, healthcare organizations, researchers, and insurers.
Care providers can use data analysis to identify effective treatments and best practices. By
comparing causes, symptoms, treatments, and their adverse effects, data mining can analyze which
courses of action are most effective for specific patient groups. It can also identify clinical best practices
to help develop guidelines and standards of care.
Patients can receive better, more affordable healthcare services. This is especially true when
healthcare managers use data mining applications to identify and track chronic diseases and high-risk
patients, design appropriate interventions, and reduce the number of hospital admissions and claims.
Healthcare organizations can use data mining to make better patient-related decisions. For
instance, it provides information to guide patient interactions by determining patient preferences, usage
patterns, and current and future needsall of which helps to improve patient satisfaction. With healthcare
organizations under increasing financial pressure, data mining can also influence revenues, costs, and
operating efficiency while maintaining high-quality care.

Insurers can detect medical insurance fraud and abuse through data mining by establishing norms
and then identifying unusual claims patterns. For example, data mining can pinpoint inappropriate
prescriptions or referrals and fraudulent insurance and medical claims. Insurers can use this information
to
reduce
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the
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care.
Nurses have shouldered a large portion of the responsibility for recording patient data in the EHR, but
their efforts will contribute to a significant potential benefit to patients and to the health delivery system.
As more data becomes available to data miners, nurses will also benefit by having more opportunities to
provide appropriate, well planned, and cost-effective patient care.

Submitted By:
Geramei V. Tejada
BSN-II

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