Using Medical Data and Clustering Techniques for a Smart Healthcare System

Abstract

With the rapid advancement of information technology, both hardware and software, smart healthcare has become increasingly achievable. The integration of medical data and machine-learning technology is the key to realizing this potential. The quality of medical data influences the results of a smart healthcare system to a great extent. This study aimed to design a smart healthcare system based on clustering techniques and medical data (SHCM) to analyze potential risks and trends in patients in a given time frame. Evidence-based medicine was also employed to explore the results generated by the proposed SHCM system. Thus, similar and different discoveries examined by applying evidence-based medicine could be investigated and integrated into the SHCM to provide personalized smart medical services. In addition, the presented SHCM system analyzes the relationship between health conditions and patients in terms of the clustering results. The findings of this study show the similarities and differences in the clusters obtained between indigenous patients and non-indigenous patients in terms of diseases, time, and numbers. Therefore, the analyzed potential health risks could be further employed in hospital management, such as personalized health education control, personal healthcare, improvement in the utilization of medical resources, and the evaluation of medical expenses.