title: Applying data mining in healthcare: an info-structure for delivering 'data-driven' strategic services.
abstract: Presently, there is a growing demand from the healthcare community to leverage upon and transform the vast quantities of healthcare data into value-added, 'decision-quality' knowledge, vis-à-vis, strategic knowledge services oriented towards healthcare management and planning. To meet this end, we present a Strategic Knowledge Services Info-structure that leverages on existing healthcare knowledge/data bases to derive decision-quality knowledge-knowledge that is extracted from healthcare data through services akin to knowledge discovery in databases and data mining.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Research Group, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Abidi
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D006285:Health Planning / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008296:Malaysia; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011050:Policy Making