Abstract: Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently shown that the disease and mortality rates of the entire world population greatly depend on the quality of healthcare access. Access to proper healthcare in each and every part of the world is a major hurdle we have yet to overcome. The attention and focus towards providing reliable healthcare access to even the most remote areas of the world is increasing day by day and has become a major issue. This paper presents a feasible solution in the form of automated medical diagnosis and treatment of diseases for those masses that are deprived the access to experienced professional healthcare. It focuses more on the diagnosis part and the challenges which should be overcome while achieving this feat.
Keywords: Decision making, Pattern recognition, Association rule.