Criteria C- Portfolio 3

Criteria C:
Impact of the Issue

There are many positive and negative aspects of data mashups on the field of health and science. A positive impact that data mining has is that people are able to find a huge range of information within one application; the data is transferred extremely fast and giving us information about the doctors, trends and also the customers. (Learning of Knowledge Management System, 2006). The data-mining bases can give us great opportunities to check about other doctors in the country that can also offers the service that you need; data mining help us to find the doctor that we want and gives us a background section about the doctor. Another advantage that data mining offers is how medical centers can carry out more research about different sicknesses and adding the data into one application making the data be shared and analyze faster. The data that is being shared is more “interactive, visual and understandable” (William, 2007).

During the last years data mining has been presenting some disadvantages as for example reliability. We don’t really know if the data that we are looking at is reliable and has a professional background because there are some people that create this website applications without even knowing about the topic being treated (William, 2007). There are also misuse of information issues because nowadays people are using more internet and are able to access all this websites application that contain important information about the health situation in the world (Heng). Security is also involved because there might be hackers that can manipulate the information that is being published in the health or pharmaceutical web applications and criminals can use hacking as a way to get information about these companies and doctors. People can use this information to maybe panic about different diseases, and also people will trust this information, which possibly not everything is true.