A Brief Survey on Big Data in Healthcare

A Brief Survey on Big Data in Healthcare

Ebru Aydindag Bayrak, Pinar Kirci
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/IJBDAH.2020010101
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Abstract

This article presents a brief introduction to big data and big data analytics and also their roles in the healthcare system. A definite range of scientific researches about big data analytics in the healthcare system have been reviewed. The definition of big data, the components of big data, medical big data sources, used big data technologies in present, and big data analytics in healthcare have been examined under the different titles. Also, the historical development process of big data analytics has been mentioned. As a known big data analytics technology, Apache Hadoop technology and its core components with tools have been explained briefly. Moreover, a glance of some of the big data analytics tools or platforms apart from Hadoop eco-system were given. The main goal is to help researchers or specialists with giving an opinion about the rising importance of used big data analytics in healthcare systems.
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1. Introduction

The technological developments helped us in producing more data that cannot be easily processed with currently available technologies. Thus, a new term ‘big data’ is created to describe the data that is large and not processed. Healthcare systems are generating huge amounts of data that present many positive and negative situations at the same time. For this reason, big data management and its analysis in healthcare sector are important (Dash et al., 2019).

Healthcare data increase day by day with the improvement of technology. The correct analysis of this data will increase the quality of maintenance and reduce the costs. This kind of data (big data) have some features such as high volume, variety, high speed production etc. Because of these features, analyzing data with traditional hardware and software platforms are pretty hard. Hence, choosing appropriate platform for analyzing and managing big data is very important (Nazari et al., 2019).

Considering the studies related to big data and big data analytics in the field of health in the literature, it is seen that quite a lot of studies have presented. Especially in recent years, it has been seen that there is a great increase in the number of studies on this subject. Some of them can be expressed as follows.

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