e-Hospital4future newsroom

Porto, Portugal, January 13, 2024

The e-Hospital4Future team in Porto, Portugal have launched a new course module focusing on using data to improve healthcare. 

This project aims to use advanced data science techniques to analyze healthcare information, which could greatly benefit patient care.

“- This project is all about using data to improve healthcare. We’re looking at how we can use the latest data science methods to understand healthcare data better,” said Ivone Silva, Work package leader at Centro Hospitalar Universitario Do Porto EPE (CHUdSA).

The project covers several vital areas.

• Cleaning and Preparing Data: The team works on fixing issues like missing or incomplete data and prepares both structured and unstructured healthcare data for analysis.
• Visualizing Data: They create charts, graphs, and maps to help understand large and complex datasets, revealing important patterns and insights.
• Data Mining and Machine Learning: The team uses different learning techniques to find hidden relationships and patterns in healthcare data, focusing on classification and clustering.
• Predictive Modeling: The project builds models to predict future health outcomes based on past data, which could significantly improve patient care.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP): The team uses NLP to extract valuable information from unstructured data, like text from electronic health records, opening up new possibilities for personalized medicine.
• Ethics and Privacy: The team ensures they follow ethical guidelines and regulations, such as HIPAA and GDPR when handling healthcare data.

This project is a big step forward in using data science to improve healthcare, aiming to make patient care better and more efficient.