Analytics in Healthcare

Christo El Morr is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics, the Health Informatics Certificate Coordinator, and former Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University; he is also a Research Scientist at North York General Hospital, Toronto. His research covers Health Informatics and Global eHealth with a focus on Health Virtual Communities and e-Collaboration, particularly in the domain of Mental Health, Chronic Disease Management and Health Promotion and Health Services Research. His work in Global eHealth addresses Human and Disability Rights, Equity, and Gender Based Violence. He has published books, chapters, and articles in these areas including the "first of its kind" Health Informatics book in Canada. In 2016, he received a recognition as York University Research Leader. Dr. El Morr is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health (IJMH) and the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH), and an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Big Data Security Intelligence (IJBDSI). He also serves as a Scientific Committee Member in several health informatics conferences.Hossam Ali-Hassan is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Glendon College, York University, in Toronto, Canada. He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from Schulich School of Business, York University. His current research interests include business analytics, experiential learning, data literacy, social media, social capital, job performance, and crowdsourcing. He is currently the Primary Investigator on a SSHRC-funded study of the impact of business analytics on job performance. He has published his findings in journals such as The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, The Journal of InformationSystems Education, and The AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interactions. Prior to his academic career, he worked for many years as a technologist and IT consultant.

• Chapter 1. Healthcare and Business Intelligence.- Chapter 2. Analytics: The Building Blocks.- Chapter 3. Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.- Chapter 4. Healthcare Analytics Applications.- Chapter 5. Data Visualization.- Chapter 6. Future Directions.- Appendix A: Which Analytics to Choose: A Guideline.