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Data Mining in Clinical Medicine pp 131–146Cite as

Introduction on Health Recommender Systems

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Abstract

People are looking for appropriate health information which they are concerned about. The Internet is a great resource of this kind of information, but we have to be careful if we don’t want to get harmful info. Health recommender systems are becoming a new wave for apt health information as systems suggest the best data according to the patients’ needs.

The main goals of health recommender systems are to retrieve trusted health information from the Internet, to analyse which is suitable for the user profile and select the best that can be recommended, to adapt their selection methods according to the knowledge domain and to learn from the best recommendations.

A brief definition of recommender systems will be given and an explanation of how are they incorporated in the health sector. A description of the main elementary recommender methods as well as their most important problems will also be made. And, to finish, the state of the art will be described.

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    Web Patientlikeme http://www.patientslikeme.com/

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    Web Chrocane http://www.cochrane.org/

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    Web Webicina http://www.webicina.com/

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  2. Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Seville, Spain

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    C. L. Sanchez-Bocanegra & J. L. Sevillano

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Sanchez-Bocanegra, C.L., Sanchez-Laguna, F., Sevillano, J.L. (2015). Introduction on Health Recommender Systems. In: Fernández-Llatas, C., García-Gómez, J. (eds) Data Mining in Clinical Medicine. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1246. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1985-7_9

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