A foundational goal of the Strategic Partner Program, APIC’s platform for engagement with industry at the leadership and strategic level, is to promote balanced collaboration among healthcare professionals, industry, academia, and the Association. Central to promoting such collaboration are: one, making more visible the productive collaborations that already exist as a result of interactions be...

The healthcare industry is one of the most attractive domains to realize the actionable knowledge discovery objectives. This chapter studies recent researches on knowledge discovery and data mining applications in the healthcare industry and proposes a new classification of these applications. Studies show that knowledge discovery and data mining applications in the healthcare industry can be c...

BACKGROUND Healthcare providers operate in a unique industry characterized by pursuit of perhaps the most noble of missions: the delivery of vital health and medical services to those in need. Distinguishing features abound, differentiating the healthcare industry from others, with such facets having the potential to compel those serving in health and medical establishments to focus exclusively...

Healthcare industry has unique characteristic about human’s life. Any mistake or medical error will cause the irretrievable regret. Patient safety is the most important issue in recent years. Because the uncertainly of disease occur, the demand of healthcare need, location and types are changed frequently. By the presure of “Self Management Plan”, how to make limited healthcare more effectivene...

Patients are increasingly recognised as the true customers of healthcare. By providing insights and perspectives, patients can help the wider healthcare community better understand their needs and ultimately enhance the value of healthcare solutions being developed. In the development of new medicines, for example, meaningful patient engagement can enable the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare...

Increasing application of information technology in the healthcare delivery system helps healthcare industry gain valuable knowledge from data, and use this insight to recommend action or guide decision making, and improve quality of patient care and practice of medicine. There is more data available than ever before. How can it truly benefit patients, payers and healthcare providers? Analytics...