Data mining based decision making: A conceptual model for public healthcare system

This paper throws light on issues pertinent to use of public healthcare data. It provides how these data and data mining can be used for decision-making at different levels of the health sector in India, and to spotlights impediments to improve data utilization. This study is among few attempts to examine data use issues in India's health sector. Methodologically, this study is designed to establish application of data mining in public healthcare data. It is mainly conceptual in nature and an attempt to identify associations between data use and data mining techniques for decision making at all the levels of public healthcare system in India. The proposed model also shows that analytical skills are necessary to improve data use in the health sector. But mere skills are not sufficient in public healthcare management. So, linking models with decisions would create strong basis for data use. To implement generated models are perhaps the most effective intervention that improves usability of data. For promoting data mining analysis and continuous evaluation of models on agreed set of indicators of success on which their performance are assessed, is also highly associated with perfect use of data.