“Business intelligence specialists in Australia are examining how to mine patient data and clinician notes in search of better ways to diagnose and treat depression, a condition not linked to specific biological causes.
“We are noticing a spread of a depression epidemic throughout the whole world,” say researchers from the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute at Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Australia, Science Daily reports. “Usually, an epidemic, such as a swine flu…has a pathogen associated with it. But, there is no pathogen involved with the depression epidemic”.”
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT, 13 December 2010
