Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

Jaimin Undavia, Atul Patel

OAI: oai:igi-global.com:253843 • DOI: 10.4018/IJBDAH.2020010102

The technological advancement has also opened up various ways to collect data through automatic mechanisms. One such mechanism collects a huge amount of data without any further maintenance or human interventions. The health industry sector has been confronted by the need to manage the big data being produced by various sources, which are well known for producing high volumes of heterogeneous data. High level of sophistication has been incorporated in almost all the industry, and healthcare is one of them. The article shows that the existence of huge amount of data in healthcare industry and the data generated in healthcare industry is neither homogeneous nor a simple type of data. Then the various sources and objectives of data are also highlighted and discussed. As data come from various sources, they must be versatile in nature in all aspects. So, rightly and meaningfully, big data analytics has penetrated the healthcare industry and its impact is also highlighted.

Data Analysis & Statistics Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems