Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare investigates how healthcare organizations can leverage this tapestry of big data to discover new business value, use cases, and knowledge as well as how big data can be woven into pre-existing business intelligence and analytics efforts. This book focuses on teaching you how to:

• Develop skills needed to identify and demolish big-data myths
• Become an expert in separating hype from reality
• Understand the V's that matter in healthcare and why
• Harmonize the 4 C's across little and big data
• Choose data fi delity over data quality
• Learn how to apply the NRF Framework
• Master applied machine learning for healthcare
• Conduct a guided tour of learning algorithms
• Recognize and be prepared for the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare via best practices, feedback loops, and contextually intelligent agents (CIAs)

The variety of data in healthcare spans multiple business workflows, formats (structured, un-, and semi-structured), integration at point of care/need, and integration with existing knowledge. In order to deal with these realities, the authors propose new approaches to creating a knowledge-driven learning organization-based on new and existing strategies, methods and technologies. This book will address the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them.