A Review on Big Data Security and Privacy in Healthcare Applications

Abstract

With the increasing use of technologically advanced equipment in medical, biomedical and healthcare fields the collection of patients' data from various hospitals is also getting necessary. The availability of data at the central location is suitable so that it can be used in need of any pharmaceutical feedback, equipment's reporting, analysis and results of any disease and many more. Collected data can also be used for manipulating or predicting and upcoming health crisis due to any disaster, virus or climatically changes. Collection of Data from various health related entities or from any patient raises some serious questions upon leakage, integrity, security and privacy of data. In this chapter the term Big Data and its usage in healthcare applications is discussed. The questions and issues are highlighted and discussed in the last section of the chapter to emphasize on the broad and pre-deployment issues. Available platforms and solutions are also mentioned and detailed to overcome the arising situation and question on usage and deployment of Big Data in healthcare related fields and applications. The available data privacy, data security, users' accessing mechanisms, authentication procedures and privileges are also described.