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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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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

Obstacles, ethical issues, and limitations

Given our touting of recent analytic and machine learning results throughout this book, why haven't doctors been replaced by computers yet? The truth is that there are many obstacles that stand in the way of implementing analytics in healthcare. Ethical issues introduced by this technology are also fiercely debated and must be considered. Finally, while obstacles imply a possibility of being overcome, there are also limitations to this technology, or aspects that likely will not be solved anytime soon. Let's discuss all three of these things in this section.

Obstacles

What are some of the current obstacles that must be overcome in order to achieve widespread use of analytics...

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