Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records

With contributions from a multi-disciplinary team of experts, this book presents a comprehensive overview of current research methods and future directions in information discovery using Electronic Health Records (EHRs). To provide a deeper understanding of the process of information discovery with regard to EHRs, the book discusses essential issues involved in preparing and extracting medical data to build a record. Privacy concerns with regard to accessing EHRs are presented by domain experts from legal and computer science perspectives. The book also explores emerging techniques for searching and mining useful knowledge from EHRs, and includes a detailed overview of mining medical images.