Big Data solutions in Healthcare: Problems and perspectives

Data in the healthcare sector is growing beyond dealing capacity of the health care organizations and is expected to increase significantly in the coming years. Majority of the Healthcare data is often unstructured, exists in silos and resides in imaging systems, medical prescription notes, insurance claims data, EPR (Electronic Patient Records) etc. integrating these heterogeneous data and factoring it in to advance analytics is critical to improve healthcare outcomes. Either because data are isolated in disparate or incompatible formats or due to the lack in processing capability to load and query large datasets in a timely fashion the Healthcare organizations are not in a position to leverage the benefits of the vast data they have. With convergence of advanced computing and numerous Big Data technological options like commercial solutions, Open Source, Cloud etc. it is now possible to attain high performance, scalability at a relatively low cost. Big data solutions often come with set of innovative data management solutions and analytical tools, when effectively implemented can transform the healthcare outcomes.