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Data openness and democratization in healthcare

an evaluation of hospital ranking methods

Kelly Lewis 1 , Chau Pham 1 , and Feras A. Batarseh 2       1 College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States      2Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Data Analytics Program, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

The democratization of data in healthcare is subsequently becoming one of the most impacting hurdles in patient service, hospital operations, and the entire medical field. Controversy among healthcare data has brought challenges to many medical case studies including legal rights to data, data ownership, and data bias. The experiment performed in this chapter shows thorough hospital ...

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