The Impact of Big Data Management in Health and Healthcare Management

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The Impact of Big Data Management in Health and Healthcare Management
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Question 1
Impact of Big Data in Healthcare
The big data is the voluminous amount of unstructured, semi structured and structured
data, which could be easily mined for information. There are 3Vs in big data, which are
extreme volume of the confidential data, variety of the data types and finally velocity of the
data that is to be processed (Andreu-Perez et al. 2015). Big data is eventually created by
proper interactions of several people with the help of GPS devices, medical devices,
computers, sensors, cell phones and the data intensive areas like genome research or medical
field. The real use cases, advantages, future challenges of the big data are responsible for
bringing major changes within the environment of healthcare. The major area of genetic
mapping is easily enhanced with this technology (Raghupathi and Raghupathi 2014).
Moreover, the unprecedented development for software technologies and processing power
like Hadoop is allowing the users to make relevant decisions, which could be extremely
important and significant for these users.
There are five distinct ways of big data changing the healthcare and these are as
follows:
i) Right Living: The first and the foremost way of big data changing healthcare is by
providing right living. The big data could be helpful for the patients in taking an active role
within their own health like diet, exercise as well as medication in adherence for taking
proper control of the health.
ii) Right Care: The big data could improve the results and reduce medical errors.
Moreover, the application of big data would facilitate the evidence based care for patients
(Groves et al. 2013).