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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By : Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader
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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By: Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader

Overview of this book

In recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple bridges the gap between practising doctors and data scientists. It equips the data scientists’ work with healthcare data and allows them to gain better insight from this data in order to improve healthcare outcomes. This book is a complete overview of machine learning for healthcare analytics, briefly describing the current healthcare landscape, machine learning algorithms, and Python and SQL programming languages. The step-by-step instructions teach you how to obtain real healthcare data and perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics using popular Python packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. The latest research results in disease detection and healthcare image analysis are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will understand how to use Python for healthcare data analysis, how to import, collect, clean, and refine data from electronic health record (EHR) surveys, and how to make predictive models with this data through real-world algorithms and code examples.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Congestive heart failure

Of all the cardiac events mentioned in the Overall cardiovascular risk section, CHF deserves a special section of its own. That is for three main reasons:

  • CHF is the most common cause of hospital admission in developed countries
  • Its cost of management is very high, accounting for up to 2% of total healthcare expenditures
  • Its cost of diagnosis is also very high, requiring expensive echocardiograms to be performed, read, and interpreted by specialized personnel and physicians (Tripoliti et al., 2016)

Diagnosing CHF

While CHF can be deemed probable in patients with particular symptoms, risk factors, electrocardiogram findings, and laboratory results, a definitive diagnosis can only be made through echocardiography...