Availability of large amount of clinical data is opening up new research avenues in a number of fields. An exciting field in this respect is healthcare, where secondary use of healthcare data is beginning to revolutionize healthcare. Except for availability of Big Data, both medical data from healthcare institutions (such as EMR data) and data generated from health and wellbeing devices (such as personal trackers), a significant contribution to this trend is also being made by recent advances on machine learning, specifically deep learning algorithms.
@article{arxiv.1804.01758,
title = {Processing of Electronic Health Records using Deep Learning: A review},
author = {Venet Osmani and Li Li and Matteo Danieletto and Benjamin Glicksberg and Joel Dudley and Oscar Mayora},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01758},
year = {2018}
}