Abstract

This chapter introduces the healthcare environment and the need for data analytics and business intelligence in healthcare. It overviews the difference between data and information and how both play a major role in decision-making using a set of analytical tools that can be either descriptive and describe events that have happened in the past, diagnostic and provide a diagnosis, predictive and predict events, or prescriptive and prescribe a course of action.

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