1. From your reading of the textbook, identify a success attributed to informatics in the text. Follow up on the success and see if it continued, led to even better improvements or was short term in nature. Summarize your findings and support them with new evidence.
2. Reflect on what you have learned about decision support and the kind of work you do or want to do. What does decision support mean to you? What kinds of decisions can big data and data mining and analytics help you make? Given examples and support your claims with sold credible evidence.
3. Identify a new aspect of big data and data mining that is interesting to you. Explain the concept and how it might bring value to healthcare. Support your claims and provide evidence.
4. With the increase of BLOGs come an increase is trolling and publishing falsehoods for personal gain. How does data mining and big data deal with false information? Explain and support your answer with credible sources.
Course Book- Kudyda, S. P. (2016). Improving Efficiency through Technology, Analytics, and Management, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), Boca Raton, FL. ISBN-13: 978-149874635