Utilization and Monetization of Healthcare Data in Developing Countries

Big Data

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 59-66

  Bram, Joshua T ^a   Warwick Clark, Boyd ^a   Obeysekare, Eric ^a   Mehta, Khanjan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business intelligence; data acquisition and cleaning; data mining; data protection, privacy, and policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991781205     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2014.0053     Document Type: Review

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