ABSTRACT

The huge amount of data available in health sector and the need of extracting knowledge of these huge data make data mining techniques the most effective solution to process such amount of data and to extract knowledge. Data mining is the process of analyzing data and summarizing it into useful information, which can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both (Bora, S.P. 2011). It is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational data. Data mining consist of major elements: Extract information, store and manage data, provide access, analyze data and present data in a useful format.