MIS203 - Big Data Analytics and Impact on Healthcare: Case Study

This report discusses the applications, potential benefits, and risks associated with implementing Big Data analytics in Epworth Healthcare. It highlights the use of Big Data for improving patient health prediction, electronic health records, real-time alerting, and strategic planning. Potential benefits include error reduction, personalized medicine, real-time care, and cost savings in areas like staff engagement and supply expenditure. The report also addresses risks such as data capture, storage, and security, emphasizing the need for secure platforms and data protection measures to ensure patient satisfaction and efficient healthcare operations. The conclusion emphasizes the transformative potential of Big Data in modernizing healthcare processes while urging proactive risk management for better efficiency.

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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

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useful in such cases where the patients would have various forms of complicated medical based
histories and who would be suffering from different vital medical conditions.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) – This is regarded as the most widespread form of
adoption of the technology within healthcare. Each patient would have their own digital health
records that would include the medical history of the patient, results based on laboratory tests
conducted and demographics. These records would be shared with the help of secure form of
information systems, which would be available from both the private and the public sector (Bates
et al. 2014).
Alerting on Real-Time – Big Data analytics could be useful for alerting the patients and
doctors about the various forms of information related to their healthcare. The various healthcare
institutions and healthcare experts would make proper use of different sophisticated tools in
order to keep a track of the vast streams of data (Kayyali, Knott and Van Kuiken 2013).
Informed Planning of Strategy – The use of big data within healthcare would be helpful
for improve the various forms of planning of strategy in order to gain better form of insights. The
data collected could be useful for preparing heat maps that would be targeted for addressing
several forms of issues that would include chronic diseases and growth of population (Auffray et
al. 2016).
1.2 Potential Benefits and Impacts of using Big Data analytics in Epworth Healthcare
The potential benefits and the various impacts within the healthcare industry are:
Reduction of Errors – There have been several forms of errors based on humans. Wrong
form of medications have been prescribed or might have been dispatched to the patients. The use
of big data analytics within healthcare would be helpful for keeping the track of the records of

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the patients. The use of big data analytics could be useful for collaborating with the data, which
would be helpful for reducing the errors within the internal systems (O’Driscoll, Daugelaite and
Sleator 2013).
Personalized form of Medicines – Big Data analytics could be helpful for generating the
genetic blueprint of a person and would be able to gain the information of the lifestyle of the
patient. This would be helpful for prediction of the ailment within the patients and thus would
help in identifying the best form of medical treatment. Big Data could be also used for tracking
the movement of population (Costa 2014). The actionable insights that would be acquired from
the use of big data would be able to gain a fair form of idea as to determine where the treatment
centers could be placed for the betterment of the patient.
Real-Time Care – The use of big data analytics would be able to provide proactive form
of care to the patients. The patients would be able to get constant suggestions from the doctors.
Various algorithms based on machine learning could be used for triggering real-time alerts based
on their devices. The digital generated reports would be submitted to the mobile based
applications from where the patients would be able to check their records and thus submit the
details to the doctors. This would be impactful for ensuring a persistent and convenient mode of
healthcare facility (Roski, Bo-Linn and Andrews 2014).
Savings of Costs – One of the major methods within the facility of medication within
healthcare is the problem based on staff engagement. The Epworth Healthcare organizations
requires a wide engagement of doctors and nurses in order to take care of the patients in an
efficient manner. However with the impact of big data within healthcare sector, it would be very
much helpful for putting the responsibility on the big data analytics (Kellermann and Jones
2013). The implementation of predictive mode of analytics with Big Data could be regarded as

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an important tool. The Rate of Investment would be reduced to drastic amount and it could be
utilized to a maximum rate.
Supply Expenditure – The increasing number of patients and hospitals have also raised
the issue for supplying tools, which would be highly needed for the purpose of medication. There
is a proper form of budget within every aspect of the healthcare industry. Over-stocking is one of
the common form of occurrence in which the supplies and tools are purchased in excess amount.
With the impact of Big Data analytics, predictions could be made based on the records of the
past and several form of amendments could be made based on the records (Hilbert 2016). The
predictive form of analytics could be helpful for enabling the hospitals in order to save lots of
money as they would be able to forecast the demand for supplying the proper medicines in an
accurate manner.
1.3 Potential Risks associated with Big Data Analytics in Epworth Healthcare
Although Big Data analytics has a huge amount of potential for creating various forms of
improvements within the sector of Epworth healthcare, yet they are faced with various forms of
challenges and risks. These risks are an important factor, which should be taken into high form
of consideration in order to mitigate them and thus ensure a healthy mode of communication and
treatment for the patients. The nature of big data is a bit complex in its form. This would require
high level of vigilance into the various prospects of the risks that would be identified within the
use of Big Data analytics within the healthcare sector (Patil and Seshadri 2014). The various
aspects, which should be highly considered are the factors based on collection of raw data,
storing them into high level of secure platforms, analyze them properly and thus finally present
them to the staff members, business partners of healthcare and patients that would be able to

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increase the level of satisfaction to the patients. Some of the major forms of risks that are mainly
associated within the healthcare sector are:
Capturing of Data – The data that are captured by the healthcare organizations comes
from various kinds of sources. The data should be clean, accurate and precise as this would help
in the ease of processing of the data by the big data analysts. The healthcare providers who
mainly support these form of facilities should be able to prioritize the valuable types of data
based on the specific requirements of the patients (Agarwal and Dhar 2014).
Storing of Data – The clinicians within the Epworth healthcare industry store their data
within the computers. This has raised various forms of concerns in relation with the security of
the data within the devices, performance issues and costs of maintenance of the devices. As the
huge volume of data based on healthcare is growing exponentially, some of the providers of
these services would not be able to manage the various incurred costs to the organization and the
potential impacts to the data centers. Cloud based storage is a growing sector within the aspect of
Big Data. The collected data should be stored in a secure platform in order to reduce the various
kinds of costs and reliability (Hashem 2015).
Security of Data – The high form of security within the data stored in Big Data
platforms is a major form of concern. There are a wide number of security aspects, which should
be highly considered. There are various instances of attacks within the system in the recent past.
High level of breach in the data of the organization, hacking and other kinds of attacks majorly
threaten the healthcare industry. In order to safeguard the use of big data within the organization,
there should be proper form of measures, which would be helpful for protecting the data of the
patients. The healthcare organizations should constantly ensure the update of protocols based on

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security of data. They should be able to constantly review the high-value assets of data in order
to prevent the data from getting hacked from malicious parties (Gandomi and Haider 2015).
2. Conclusion
Based on the discussion from the above report, it could be concluded that the use of Big
Data analytics within the Epworth healthcare sector would be a major help for the improvement
of processes within the system. Big Data has a huge form of potential for transforming the sector
of healthcare by improvising the traditional performance within the sector into a more modern
form. The impact of Big Data within healthcare would be able to remove the traditional methods
that were based on people who would update the works within the sector. This report discusses
about the various major impacts that would occur with the implementation of Big Data within
the sector. There are a wide range of applications of Big Data within the concerned industry of
Epworth healthcare. These aspects should be highly considered by the industry in order to
improve the operational functions within the industry and thus help the doctors and patients with
the improved methods of medication. Epworth healthcare should also considered the various
kinds of risks that might get incurred within the systems with the implementation of Big Data.
Hence they should be proactive in considering the impacts within the system in order to provide
better form of efficiency within the systems.

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