Critical Review on Data Mining in Healthcare Sector

With the growing need for technology to handle and analyze data, Data Mining (DM) is becoming an important tool to be used in healthcare for several purposes. Data mining refers to the processing of raw information to convert it into useful information by which certain decisions can be taken. In the healthcare sector, Data mining has great significance because due to the changes in lifestyles, various diseases affect the people and there is a need to use the efficient technique to predict the disease in time so that appropriate treatment can be provided to the patient. There are several algorithms of data mining that are used for this purpose including Naïve Bayes, support vector machine (SVM), decision tree, and neural networks. This paper attempts to identify the role of data mining in the healthcare sector to predict and classify diseases.