Data mining awareness and readiness in healthcare sector: a case of Tanzania
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Date
2014
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Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal
Abstract
Globally the application of data mining in healthcare is great, because the healthcare sector is rich with tremendous amount of data and data mining becoming very essential. Healthcare sector collect huge amount of data in daily basis. Transferring data into secure electronic systems of medical health will saves lives and reduce the cost of healthcare services as well as early discovery of contiguous diseases with advanced collection of data. This study explore the awareness and readiness to implement data mining technology within healthcare in Tanzania public sector. This study is triangulated adopted online survey using Google doc and offline survey using presentation techniques through different hospital and distributed the questionnaires to the healthcare professionals. The issues explored in the questionnaire included the awareness of data mining technology, the level of understanding of, perception of and readiness to implement data mining technology within healthcare public sector. In this study we will analyze the data using SPSS statistical tool.
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Abstract. Full text article. Also available at https://tinyurl.com/3s86z9sx
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WHO, World health organization, ICT, healthcare, Dynamic morphology, Data mining technology, Data mining, Tanzania public health sector, NHIF
Citation
Diwani, S. A., & Sam, A. (2014). Data Mining Awareness and Readiness in Healthcare Sector: a case of Tanzania. ACSIJ Adv. Comput. Sci. an Int. J, 3(1), 37-43.