Applying Data Visualization to Improve the e-Health Decision Making

Abstract

e-Health is the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector. Number of patients and diseases are increasing everyday because of the population growth. An e-health database or a decision making in e-health field may involve huge amount of data. Dealing with huge amount data is a complex task. To deal with such challenge, we can take the advantage of advance technology like information visualization techniques. This paper presents a snapshot of how we will apply different visualization techniques such as zooming, focusing, multiple coordinated views, and details on demand etc. on the e-Health data to visualize the medical and health information in very interactive way. The proposed application can help the doctors and medical students with their decision making. Doctors or medical students will be able to visualize the information based on their needs which will improve the decision accuracy and decision time as well.