Healthcare 4.0-Digitizing Healthcare Using Big Data for Performance Improvisation

Abstract

The management, analysis and usage of the data in the technical industry have been changed by the introduction of the Big Data Technology. There are numerous areas where usage of big data is very promising but the main industry that is getting maximum benefit from big data is healthcare industry. Introduction of big data into healthcare affected a lot to healthcare industry. Most of the advantages are reduction in the cost of the treatment, decision making in case of any emergency, prevention of curable diseases and early prediction of epidemics etc. This usage of big data in healthcare is also helpful in improvising the average lifetime of people. Like any other industry, Health professionals are also using a huge amount of data and using that data in performing various treatments and procedures to get benefited from it. In this paper, we will discuss about the usage of big data in healthcare, the various sources of data, benefits of that data and the obstacles in using that data and tools, technologies and algorithms used to get, analyze and process that data.