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From Clinical Data to Knowledge Mining for Decision Making within Hospitals

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What are we doing and why? Why should we integrate our expertise and professions – what is the value of us forming teams – just because we can, does not mean we should? There has to be a common goal, a reason for our endeavors. Most importantly this must translate into change – a better outcome for our patients, our communities and ourselves.

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Steyn, M. (2012). From Clinical Data to Knowledge Mining for Decision Making within Hospitals. In: He, J., Liu, X., Krupinski, E.A., Xu, G. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29361-0_2

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