The potential of Big Data allows us to hope to slow the ever-increasing costs of care, help providers practice more effective medicine, empower patients and caregivers, support fitness and preventive self-care, and to dream about more personalized med...
The potential of Big Data allows us to hope to slow the ever-increasing costs of care, help providers practice more effective medicine, empower patients and caregivers, support fitness and preventive self-care, and to dream about more personalized medicine. Yet, as with the Internet, social media, and cloud computing, early enthusiasts are creating hyperbolic expectations about how and how quickly Big Data will transform healthcare. A number of issues challenge the adoption and success of healthcare Big Data, including privacy and security, who owns the data, and the regulatory labyrinth. Furthermore, real advances depend on better ways to exploit the disconnected puddles and lakes of existing data as well as better ways to generate, capture, analyze and make use of the streams of new kinds of data that are about to flood healthcare. This paper will introduce to Big Data and explore how it is becoming a growing force in the changing healthcare landscape.