Information Reuse in Hospital Information Systems: A Similarity-Oriented Data Mining Approach

  • Shusaku Tsumoto
  • Shoji Hirano
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6954)

Abstract

This paper presents application of data mining to data stored in a hospital information system in which temporal behavior of global hospital activities are visualized. The results show that the reuse of stored data will give a powerful tool for hospital management and lead to improvement of hospital services.

Keywords

Hospital information system data mining clustering 

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References

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    Hanada, E., Tsumoto, S., Kobayashi, S.: A ”Ubiquitous environment” through wireless voice/Data communication and a fully computerized hospital information system in a university hospital. In: Takeda, H. (ed.) E-Health 2010. IFIP-AICT, vol. 335, pp. 160–168. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Shusaku Tsumoto
    • 1
  • Shoji Hirano
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of MedicineShimane UniversityIzumoJapan

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