Improving Health Care Practitioner Systems

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1. INTRODUCTION

Over the past few decades, the generation and availability of information over the cyberspace is increasing enormously. There exist an alarming need for solutions that will help to filter the relevant data from the collection of disorganised data for the users to select the most suitable data from the available collection of data. A lot of strategies have been developed, that assist in the selection of relevant information for the user. Applications on the internet are making searching convenient for users by incorporating recommender systems within the applications which helps to filter unwanted information, predict the needs and preferences of users (Long, Zhang, & Hu, 2011) and provide suggestions to the users. When compared to the other fields of information systems, recommender systems is a relatively new field, as it initially used to be a part of information retrieval and management sciences. …show more content…

It is also being used in different domains such as healthcare, sports etc. In the healthcare domain, hospitals and medical centres create large volume of data with semi structured text, numbers and images (Koh & Tan, 2011). This large quantity of data contains important information that can help support high quality clinical decision making. In order to ensure this, recommender systems are applied to healthcare functions to provide better health related services to patients and to facilitate doctor and hospital staff decision making. These system requirements vary completely when compared to the recommendation system requirements in the other domains like e-commerce. This paper provides a understanding of recommender system, the classification of recommender system based on different techniques and focuses on the various applications of recommender systems in healthcare based on the services it

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