Big Data Strategy: Australian Government Department of Health

This presentation examines the application of Big Data within the Australian Department of Health, highlighting its role in healthcare innovation. It begins by defining Big Data and its relevance, followed by an overview of its use in the healthcare sector. The presentation focuses on the Australian Department of Health, detailing the primary areas of focus, innovation examples, and underlying benefits such as improved patient and physician relationships, optimized care efficiency, and informed patient preferences. It also explores market trends, future advancements, and the implications of Big Data in healthcare, including enhanced patient engagement, personalized assistance, and the resolution of personal injuries. The presentation concludes with a discussion of various applications of healthcare data and provides a comprehensive list of references.

Application of Big Data in
Australian Government,
Department of Health
Name of the Student
Name of the University

Without data, you are just
another person with an opinion
-W.
Edwards Deming

Big Data
 Complex and large data sets that are difficult to
process without advanced technology (Groves et al.
2016)
 The technology finds insights based on
heterogeneous, voluminous and longitudinal data
 Aims for solving problems that were unanswered or
solve complex problems (Kim et al. 2014)

The Four V’s of Big Data
(Figure 1: The Four V’s of Big
Data)
(Source: Wyber et al. 2015)

Big Data in Healthcare Sector

Healthcare Analytics with Big Data
Old Ways: Data was small and inexpensive
EHR Era: Data is large and highly cheap
 Focuses over patient population
 Heterogeneous data
 Diverse scale
 Noisy data (Zhang et al. 2015)
 Longitudinal records

Big Data in Australian Government,
Department of Health
 The Department of Health of the Australian
Government makes a wide use of technology for
evaluating the health of patients (Health.gov.au 2019)
 Provide services based on advanced methodologies
 Big Data has paved the path of innovation within the
sector

The Primary Areas of Focus
(Figure 2: The Primary Areas of Focus)
(Source: Lee and Yoon 2017)

Innovation Examples
Initiatives by the Australian Healthcare Department:
 Innovative methods for diagnosis of healthcare factors
 New ways for curing diseases
 Penalizing of hospitals with failure rate among patient
treatment (Hilbert 2016)
 BRAIN Initiative

The Underlying Benefits
With the help of Big Data, the underlying benefits that
would be supported include:
 360-degree view and holistic view of patients and
physicians
 Improving efforts for physician relationship
management
 Identifying patterns in healthcare outcomes, hospital
organization and patient satisfaction

The Underlying Benefits
The other kind of benefits that are supported are:
 Optimizing the growth for efficiency in care,
personalization and effectiveness.
 Informing the patients about their preferences and
data referral (Ta, Liu and Nkabinde 2016)
 Analysing trends and benefiting research ideas to
positive health outcomes

Market Trends of Big Data
(Figure 3: Market Trends of Big Data)
(Source: Roski Bo-Linn and Andrews 2014)