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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

You're reading from   Healthcare Analytics Made Simple Techniques in healthcare computing using machine learning and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286702
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vikas (Vik) Kumar Vikas (Vik) Kumar
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Shameer Khader Shameer Khader
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Healthcare Analytics FREE CHAPTER 2. Healthcare Foundations 3. Machine Learning Foundations 4. Computing Foundations – Databases 5. Computing Foundations – Introduction to Python 6. Measuring Healthcare Quality 7. Making Predictive Models in Healthcare 8. Healthcare Predictive Models – A Review 9. The Future – Healthcare and Emerging Technologies 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Standardized clinical codesets

Being philosophical for a moment, every known object that has a significant importance attributed to it has a name. The organs you are using to read these words are known as eyes. The words are written on pieces of paper called pages. To turn the pages, you use your hands. These are all objects that we have named so that we can identify them easily.

In healthcare, important entities—diseases, procedures, lab tests, drugs, symptoms, bacteria species, for example, have names and identities too. For example, the failure of the heart valves to pump blood to the rest of the body is known as heart failure. ACE inhibitors are a class of drugs used to treat heart failure.

A problem arises, however, when healthcare industry workers associate the same entity with different identities. For example, one physician may refer to "heart failure&quot...

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