Data mining in healthcare information systems: Case study of a veterans' administration spinal cord injury population

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Kraft, M R ^a   Desouza, K C ^b   Androwich, I ^c  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Data Mining; Hospital Information Systems; Knowledge Discovery in Databases; Spinal Cord Injury; Veterans Administration

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DATA MINING PROCESS; HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE GENERATIONS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI);

DATA MINING;

EID: 84969508555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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