Nguyen A. Hands-On Healthcare Data. Taming the Complexity...2022

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Healthcare is the next frontier for data science. Using the latest in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, you'll be able to solve healthcare's most pressing problems: reducing cost of care, ensuring patients get the best treatment, and increasing accessibility for the underserved. But first, you have to learn how to access and make sense of all that data.This book provides pragmatic and hands-on solutions for working with healthcare data, from data extraction to cleaning and harmonization to feature engineering. Author Andrew Nguyen covers specific ML and deep learning examples with a focus on producing high-quality data. You'll discover how graph technologies help you connect disparate data sources so you can solve healthcare's most challenging problems using advanced analytics.
Introduction to Healthcare Data
Standardized Vocabularies in Healthcare
Deep Dive: Electronic Health Records Data
Deep Dive: Claims Data
Machine Learning and Analytics
Trends in Healthcare Analytics
Graphs, Harmonization, and Some Final Thoughts