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Big Data Paradigm for Healthcare Sector

Big Data Paradigm for Healthcare Sector
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Author(s): Jyotsna Talreja Wassan (Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 18
Source title: Big Data: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9840-6.ch026

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Abstract

The digitization of world in various areas including health care domain has brought up remarkable changes. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have emerged for maintaining and analyzing health care real data online unlike traditional paper based system to accelerate clinical environment for providing better healthcare. These digitized health care records are form of Big Data, not because of the fact they are voluminous but also they are real time, dynamic, sporadic and heterogeneous in nature. It is desirable to extract relevant information from EHRs to facilitate various stakeholders of the clinical environment. The role, scope and impact of Big Data paradigm on health care is discussed in this chapter.

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