Let’s talk about the history of healthcare with big data. Let’s talk about how it all started. Big Data’s has been around for many years now. Big data was defined as volume, variety and velocity by Doug Laney back in 2001. It is slowly blooming as technology era becomes more important and big data is finally becoming popular among us. Big data can be used for various sectors but let’s ask ourselves, how did big data end up being used for health care?
Large volumes of data is collected in the healthcare but most are said to be more recreational data meaning that the data collected from patients may be useful for later down the road for analyzing purpose and creating new paths to solve healthcare problems In healthcare they have been using the traditional methods to save data of a patient in the hospitals. Even they have databases, it is no match for Big Data as it can store pretty much anything and everything. The healthcare stakeholders had a harder time using the traditional methods to share and analyze data of a patient.
In order for the hospitals to start applying big data in their industry, they have to undergo a huge change from the traditional methods to the modern methods. The big data has shown many successful events in various fields generating profits and also customer satisfaction. With the use of this in healthcare, it makes it easier for researchers and data miners to analyze patient’s records creating a better solution to treat the patient and also other patients in the future, analyzing new drugs for treatments purpose to curb certain viruses, and also gain important data that can help patients to reduce costs.
A reason why they prefer big data is that standard medical practice decided to rely on evidence based rather than having an ad-hoc decision making and more subjective decision making. The in influences big data has on healthcare is remarkable. This opens work opportunities to many big data scientist and also data analyst or data miners that are mainly into analyzing, discovering many other patterns to cure and create new ways to help in healthcare. They also help to create many new software in order to help with analyzing and create statistical inferences based on the data they have collected throughout hospitals and patients from over the world from time to time.
There are many questions that arise from various people in many fields around the world. Is it safe because now anyone can access it since it’s in the cloud, what are the security measures taken to overcome this problem, does it save time and money and most of all, will it work? There are many security measure taken into consideration to curb the issue. For instance it is just like your iCloud.
Even though it is in the cloud instead of traditional database, there are security measures which stops hackers, spammers from retrieving the data and in order to retrieve it, you will definitely need access to retrieve. Big data has proven in other sectors that it has save tons of money and time because its way simpler and easier to analyze data rather than the longer traditional method therefor it is introduced to healthcare because we all know healthcare is not cheap. It can come up to hundreds till thousands of dollars.
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