DocumentCode
659604
Title
A look at challenges and opportunities of Big Data analytics in healthcare
Author
Nambiar, Raghunath ; Bhardwaj, Romil ; Sethi, Ankit ; Vargheese, Rajesh
Author_Institution
Cisco Syst., Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
6-9 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
17
Lastpage
22
Abstract
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.
Keywords
data analysis; diseases; health care; medical computing; big data analytics; clinical trials; disease epidemics; healthcare industry; healthcare spending; healthcare systems; hospital systems; operational efficiencies; Companies; Data handling; Data storage systems; Diseases; Industries; Information management; Big Data; Healthcare;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Big Data, 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Silicon Valley, CA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BigData.2013.6691753
Filename
6691753
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