Text Mining In Healthcare

Abstract

In healthcare, data mining intensively and extensively becoming essential. Data mining applications can benefit all patients and the healthcare professionals. This paper starts with introducing data mining and the healthcare paradigm. This study confers various techniques of data mining in healthcare application domain. As the scope of the study is limited to text mining classification, state of art in particular to healthcare text mining classification is studied in detail with suggested improvements. Various issues and challenges owing to the type of data in healthcare are also discussed in detail with possible solutions. Finally, the paper highlights the need for personalized prescriptive systems for patients and healthcare professionals