Big data analytics in healthcare: promise and potential

To describe the promise and potential of big data analytics in healthcare. The paper describes the nascent field of big data analytics in healthcare, discusses the benefits, outlines an architectural framework and methodology, describes examples reported in the literature, briefly discusses the challenges, and offers conclusions. The paper provides a broad overview of big data analytics for healthcare researchers and practitioners. Big data analytics in healthcare is evolving into a promising field for providing insight from very large data sets and improving outcomes while reducing costs. Its potential is great; however there remain challenges to overcome.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Health Information Science and Systems

• Publication date

  2014-02-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/2047-2501-2-3PMID 25825667PMCID 4341817
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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