Introduction to Machine Learning in Digital Healthcare Epidemiology.

Journal: Infection control and hospital epidemiology
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Abstract

To exploit the full potential of big routine data in healthcare and to efficiently communicate and collaborate with information technology specialists and data analysts, healthcare epidemiologists should have some knowledge of large-scale analysis techniques, particularly about machine learning. This review focuses on the broad area of machine learning and its first applications in the emerging field of digital healthcare epidemiology.

Authors

  • Jan A Roth
    1Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology,University Hospital Basel,Basel,Switzerland.
  • Manuel Battegay
    1Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology,University Hospital Basel,Basel,Switzerland.
  • Fabrice Juchler
    1Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology,University Hospital Basel,Basel,Switzerland.
  • Julia E Vogt
  • Andreas F Widmer
    1Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology,University Hospital Basel,Basel,Switzerland.