Data Mining is very popular in today’s era because
it provides access to the information that is hidden from a normal
human being eye. The hidden information that is made available
through data mining can benefit the person involved by providing
an efficient decision support. Today data mining can be applied to
various areas such as marketing, banking, aerospace and
healthcare. It is identified that providing decision support in
healthcare domain can help in saving human life. Although
providing decision support through data mining in healthcare is
very beneficial but it lacks standardization. A comparison of
benefits gained from applying data mining techniques to
standardized and non-standardized EHRs is provided. This paper
aims to indentify the need of applying data mining techniques to
standardized electronic healthcare records. It interrogates
various issues that need to be resolved for providing an efficient
standardized decision support system.