Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care

Abstract

Big Data is one of the most promising area where it can be applied to make a change is health care. Healthcare analytics have the potential to reduce the treatment costs, forecast outbreaks of epidemics, avoid preventable diseases, and improve the quality of life. In general, the lifetime of human is increasing along world population, which poses new experiments to today’s treatment delivery methods. Health professionals are skillful of gathering enormous volumes of data and look for best approaches to use these numbers. Big data analytics has helped the healthcare area by providing personalized medicine and prescriptive analytics, medical risk interference and predictive analytics, computerized external and internal reporting of patient data, homogeneous medical terms and patient registries, and fragmented point solutions. The data generated level within healthcare systems is significant. This includes electronic health record data, imaging data, patient-generated data, etc. While widespread information in health care is now mostly electronic and fits under the big data as most is unstructured and difficult to use. The use of big data in health care has raised substantial ethical challenges ranging from risks for specific rights, privacy and autonomy, to transparency and trust.

Citation

Kalaiselvi, K. and Thirumurthi Raja, A. (2020), "Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care", Tanwar, P., Jain, V., Liu, C.-M. and Goyal, V. (Ed.) Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-099-820201005