Big Data Analytics and Impact on Healthcare

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Big Data Analytics and Impact on Healthcare
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Table of Contents
1. Discussion....................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Applications of Big Data Analytics.......................................................................................2
1.2 Potential Benefits and Impacts of using Big Data analytics in Epworth Healthcare.............3
1.3 Potential Risks associated with Big Data Analytics in Epworth Healthcare.........................5
2. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................7
3. References....................................................................................................................................8

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1. Discussion
1.1 Applications of Big Data Analytics
Big Data could be defined as the latest form of technologies, which has the major form of
potential for the fast pace of change within the working of organizations. This new kind of
technology is also used within the healthcare industry for enhancing the experience of the
customers and thus would be able transform the models of business. The industry of healthcare
handles huge amounts of data and is majorly driven by various form of regulatory based
requirements, compliance, maintenance of records and various kinds of similar based aspects
related to the care of patients (Raghupathi and Raghupathi 2014). The primary goal behind the
implementation of Big Data analytics within the healthcare industry is for the introduction of
medical practitioners and analysts within Healthcare. They would be highly required for
analyzing of the improved form of advancements within the computing field, which would be
highly used for handling data and thus be able to make several kind of inferences based on
heterogeneous and large forms of data within the healthcare industry (Groves et al. 2013).
Improved Prediction of the Health of Patient - Big Data could be used for the
predicting the health of the patient based on various forms of analytics. The data collected from
various forms of the healthcare queries based on the data of the patients would be collected from
the hospital records. This data would be highly required for improving the mode of improvement
of healthcare and the medication facilities for the patients. Predictive analytics could be defined
as the biggest form of trend within the business (Murdoch and Detsky 2013). The primary goal
of intelligence within healthcare industry would be helpful to doctors in order to make data-
driven form of decisions within instant timeframe. These improved form of decisions would be