Data mining is widely used in areas such as healthcare, finance, retail, and education. Recent studies indicate that it is also proving a useful tool to study social behaviors. Let's look at some interesting examples of this. Data Mining to Analyze Behavior on Online...
Data Mining to Analyze Cultural Differences
Measuring culture refers to understanding the behaviors and habits of people residing in different parts of the world. It is a complex task that comes with a lot of challenges. However, the surprising fact is that data mining methods can be utilized to measure culture...
EHR Copy and Paste Function Lacking in Adequate Fraud Safeguards
A recent report in the New York Times points out that the federal government has failed to ensure that electronic health records have adequate safeguards to prevent medical billing fraud. The results of an audit covering 864 hospitals that received Medicare incentive...
Why Do Cloning Errors Occur in EHR?
The basic intention underlying the transition from paper-based documents to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system is to improve patient care and reduce costs. The federal government has announced that health care practitioners who fail to achieve 'meaningful use'...
Mobile Photo Bill Payment Eliminates Need for Data Entry
In the current mobile-oriented Internet environment, it is a great challenge for financial service providers to implement tools and capabilities that can cope with changing consumer needs. Many banks have apps that allow customers to deposit checks by snapping photos...
New Technologies Enhance Financial Data Mining and Analysis
With the advancements in technology, the way information is retrieved and organized is changing rapidly. In the field of financial data mining and analysis too, new technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL and Storm are enhancing access to complex and unstructured data....
New Technology Helping to Address Data Entry Issues in Healthcare
Today, medical practitioners are analyzing big data using algorithms to improve patient care. Data mining helps identify treatments that are effective for particular conditions, identify patterns related to drug side effects, and a lot of other useful information that...
How Can Businesses Benefit from BPO Services?
BPO services helps greatly to improve business outcomes. They free up resources and help cut costs; more time and resources for core tasks.
Business Process Outsourcing Is a Win-Win Situation
Businesses in North America and Europe have successfully tried out business process outsourcing (BPO) and benefited from it to the extent that it has become the norm. It has helped them improve their efficiency and productivity. BPO Market Keeping on Growing Research...
BPO Advantages Becoming Difficult to Ignore
According to a new study by KPMG and HfS Research, the global financial and accounting business process outsourcing (F & A BPO) is set to cross 25 billion dollars in 2013 and will grow at an annual compound rate of 8 percent through 2017. The study covered 399...