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Application of IT in healthcare: a systematic review
Toor R., Chana I. ACM SIGBioinformatics Record6 (2):1-8,2016.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Jan 19 2017

Information technology (IT) is expanding its scope from communications to other fields, including engineering, the environment, healthcare, and so on. Healthcare is an emerging field for the development of medical applications using IT computational techniques. This paper reviews IT applications in healthcare.

The authors present a comparison of current and future trends in health monitoring by doctors and patients. They gather healthcare data under genomic, proteomic, drug-related, and clinical data. The authors further highlight the use of various technologies or tools in medical applications, including (1) data mining, (2) network analysis and similarity-based measures, (3) text mining, and (4) cloud-based services. They focus on NCBI, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for students, as sources of knowledge in their study.

According to the authors, the survey comprises 19 research papers distributed into the four areas mentioned above. They provide tables listing the publicly available databases, the kind of data (however, Table 7 is missing in the paper), and type, purpose, and special features of some popular tools.

This paper is an interesting read for those who are working in the area of IT application development in healthcare. The tabular representation of the common issues and future outcomes of the presented technologies in healthcare applications makes it a worthwhile read.

Reviewer:  Lalit Saxena Review #: CR145008 (1705-0320)
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