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Abstract : Nearest neighbor algorithms like kNN and Parzen Window are generative algorithms that are used extensively for medical diagnosis and classification of diseases. The data generated or collected in healthcare is high dimensional and cannot be assumed to follow a particular distribution. The conventional approaches fail due to computational complexity, curse of dimensionality, and varying distributions. Hence, this chapter deals with a blending technique for evaluation of nearest neighbor algorithms based on various parameters such as the size of data, dimensions of data, window size, and number of nearest neighbors to make it suitable for massive datasets. Dimensionality reduction and clustering are combined with nearest neighbor classifier such as kNN and Parzen Window to observe the performance of the blended models on various types of datasets. Experimental results on 15 real datasets with various models reveal the efficacy of the proposed blends.