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ComputingData ScienceHealth InformaticsBig Data AnalyticsHealth Data AnalyticsHealthcare Information SystemsClinical AnalyticsHealthcare AnalyticsHealthcare Operations AnalyticsMachine Learning For Big DataPredictive Health ModelingReal-time AnalyticsBig Data Analytics ArchitectureBig Data ArchitectureHealth Services AnalyticsHealthcare Data QualityHealthcare Quality AnalyticsHealthcare Spending EfficiencyHospital AnalyticsPatient Data Analytics
Big Data analytics can revolutionize the healthcare industry. It can improve operational efficiencies, help predict and plan responses to disease epidemics, improve the quality of monitoring of clinical trials, and optimize healthcare spending at all levels from patients to hospital systems to governments. This paper provides an overview of Big Data, applicability of it in healthcare, some of the work in progress and a future outlook on how Big Data analytics can improve overall quality in healthcare systems.