A look at challenges and opportunities of Big Data analytics in healthcare

Big Data analytics can revolutionize the healthcare industry. It can improve operational efficiencies, help predict and plan responses to disease epidemics, improve the quality of monitoring of clinical trials, and optimize healthcare spending at all levels from patients to hospital systems to gover...

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Hauptverfasser: Nambiar, Raghunath, Bhardwaj, Ruchie, Sethi, Adhiraaj, Vargheese, Rajesh
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Zusammenfassung:Big Data analytics can revolutionize the healthcare industry. It can improve operational efficiencies, help predict and plan responses to disease epidemics, improve the quality of monitoring of clinical trials, and optimize healthcare spending at all levels from patients to hospital systems to governments. This paper provides an overview of Big Data, applicability of it in healthcare, some of the work in progress and a future outlook on how Big Data analytics can improve overall quality in healthcare systems.
DOI:10.1109/BigData.2013.6691753