A Survey of Recommender Systems and Their Application in Healthcare
th independent research area at the end of 19 century and its popularity has dramatically increased in recent years [i ii] Recommendation techniques have been used in various domains such as health, entertainment, ecommerce, sports, media etc. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the recommender systems in healthcare industry. Recommender systems are widely used in health care industry now days to provide better health services to patient and also facilitate doctors and hospital staff to make decisions. The practice of recommendation techniques in health care demands to consider distinct requirements as compared to other domains like e commerce. We have developed a hybrid recommender system for healthcare. The reported results of the proposed recommender system is also presented in this survey paper. The statistical comparison of the proposed system with existing state of the art systems is also presented. The proposed survey paper presents a critical analysis of the existing recommender systems specifically in health care. This paper elaborates the usage of recommender systems in health care domain, which mainly focus on providing the most suitable recommendations of doctors and hospitals to patients. The key factors of hospital selection is also investigated. Finally, this survey paper provides useful suggestions that can help in improving the quality of recommender systems in health care industry.