Big Data in Healthcare and How You as Healthcare Provider Could Get Benefit of Big Data
Amal Mohammed Alghamdi
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Princess Nora University
Collage of Medicine Big Data in Healthcare and How You as Healthcare Provider Could Get Benefit of Big Data
"Big data is a term for data sets that traditional data processing application softwares are not able to deal with them and they are so large and complex so they are facing a lot of challenges such as, storage, analysis, search, capture, data curation, transfer, sharing, visualization, updating and information privacy and querying". Nowadays the big data is producing a lot of benefits in different fields including healthcare. The big data in healthcare was used to predict epidemics, cure
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For the patient it will mean better, faster and cheaper diagnosis and treatment, and better information about health care providers. Pēteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit ICT for Health and Wellbeing in the European Commission, says "Analysing disparate and highly dynamic data will benefit different fields like epidemiological research or early detection and prevention of diseases. By moving from a reporting approach (what has happened?) to a predictive approach (what will happen?), big data is creating a new knowledge era in the world of medical care". The big data application in healthcare provide new ways to accelerate and improve the research because there is a huge amounts of data on applicants so it will allow to the researchers to pick the best subjects such as, what happened recently in the pharmaceutical. The data sharing arrangements between the pharmaceutical giants has led to breakthroughs such as the discovery that desipramine which is a drug that commonly used as an anti-depressant, has potential uses in curing types of lung cancer. Big data analytics has helped healthcare improve by clinical risk intervention and predictive analytics, providing personalized medicine and prescriptive
Introduction “Health informatics is the science that underlies the academic investigation and practical application of computing and communications technology to healthcare, health education and biomedical research” (UofV, 2012). This broad area of inquiry incorporates the design and optimization of information systems that support clinical practice, public health and research; understanding and optimizing the way in which biomedical data and information systems are used for decision-making; and using communications and computing technology to better educate healthcare providers, researchers and consumers. Although there are many benefits of bringing in electronic health systems there are glaring issues that associate with these systems. The
It was just yesterday when Electronic health records was just introduced in healthcare industry. People were not ready to accept it due to higher cost and consumption of time associated in training people and adopting new technology. Despite of all this criticism, use of Internet and Electronic Health records are now gaining its popularity among health care professionals, as it is the most effective way to communicate with patient and colleagues. More and more hospitals and clinics are getting rid of paper base filling system and investing in cloud base storage.
Health informatics is best described as the point where information science, medicine, and healthcare all meet. It encompasses the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and the use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics incorporates tools such as: computers (hardware and softwar...
Peter Setness is a family medical doctor in Minneapolis. Setness states how technology has made information so easy to get a hold of. With information being so handy at any point of time and it being used in the most convenient situation, can give a person a sense of power. Information and technology is what makes up the practice of physicians today. Setness list how patient data helps provide research statistics, death rates, and improvement in public health. Setness’ article can be considered credible because he is a postgraduate in medicine and has done extensive research on how privacy is important in research proposals. This article can help provide support on how HIPPA impacts health research.
The result is that the volume of data and its management is a burden on the provider and his/her staff. Eventually, as EHR use becomes usual, patients will begin to recognize enhanced healthcare results.
Electronic prescribing will enable prescribers to better utilize their time, while a prescription drug database can be used by doctors and pharmacists to improve prescribing practices and help to prevent dangerous drug interactions
This allows for the doctors, nurses and other caregivers to train the patients about managing their health and reporting the status back on a regular basis. Identifying patients at risk exploiting clinical and behaviour data can guide efficient resource allocation and utilization and reduce lots of costs. For example, chronic diseases account for about 86 percent of healthcare expenditures in the US. Severe chronic conditions such as heart disease, arthritis, asthma and diabetes alone cost 33 percent of total spending. Obviously, we can’t stop the population from aging, but we can make the healthcare system more efficient through big
...s in the health industry. It is set to change the way doctors and patient’s access information as it will make information more available in a clear and efficient way.
In today’s society, technology has become more advanced than the human’s mind. Companies want to make sure that their information systems stay up-to-date with the rapidly growing technology. It is very important to senior-level executives and board of directions of companies that their systems can produce the right and best information for their company to result in a greater outcome and new organizational capabilities. Big data and data analytics are one of those important factors that contribute to a successful company and their updated software and information systems.
Big Data is a term used to refer to extremely large and complex data sets that have grown beyond the ability to manage and analyse them with traditional data processing tools. However, Big Data contains a lot of valuable information which if extracted successfully, it will help a lot for business, scientific research, to predict the upcoming epidemic and even determining traffic conditions in real time. Therefore, these data must be collected, organized, storage, search, sharing in a different way than usual. In this article, invite you and learn about Big Data, methods people use to exploit it and how it helps our life.
Yignesh Ramachandran states in an article that health informatics “manages all aspects of the effective and efficient planning, collection, organization, implementation, analysis and use of data to create information within the healthcare system.” It gives easier access of client information to the interprofessional team. This system can improve the quality of health care, lowers paperwork and increase productivity. It also decreases the interpersonal time with clients.
Health care and research are no longer two different paths, but instead because the emphasis on reducing cost and increasing quality outcomes they are converging to make a LHCS. With the introduction of LHCS’s, research and treatment will converge into a new way of managing patient data. Expansion of technology and increased patient involvement in their health care will continue to create the need to reassess what privacy and confidentiality look like to the patient, researcher, practitioner, health plan and other business
Pfizer creates competitive advantage by reaching out to prospective partners that are willing to collaborate on innovative solutions. Prospective partners are those that provide cutting edge technology in analytics-enabled services, healthcare decision-support tools, open innovation platforms and other open platforms (ET CIO 2014). Each of these areas provide a way for Pfizer to collect, store and analyze large amounts of data. Companies such as IBM collaborate with Pfizer to create new ways of collecting patient data (Miller 2016). Creating Cloud services, Pfizer taps into a way to store clinical trial data from many different trials and researchers. This data is used to cut down on the amount of time used to execute clinical trials (Preston
While we may not know exactly what health care will look like in 2050, technological advances will improve the diagnosis and treatment of the chronic health conditions we face. Personalized predictive medicine will allow for living longer healthier lives as wireless monitoring systems allow patients to stay connected to health providers (Lawrence, 2010). The focus will shift from treating acute illnesses to finding and treating ailments before they become serious with more costly complications. This more balanced health care system will become a more affordable arrangement for meeting the primary medical needs of patients in the US (Lawrence, 2010).
In other words, ICT basically promotes professionalism and reduce human effort as well as reducing the chances of erring. Healthcare simply means preventing, diagnosing and curing ailments that terminate life and reduce lifespan of human and all living things. In other words, the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) play a vital role in improving health care for humanity. It is efficient in providing, communicating and storing certain information about users and uses. ICT helps in bridging the gap created in health sector and may be used to enhance efficient relationships between the healthcare providers and health researchers. In other words, through the development of databases and other applications, ICT enhances health research and; this provides the capacity to improve health system efficiencies and prevent medical errors. The use of ICT can never be evaluated without