Chapter 8 - Why big data, and what it is: basics to advanced big data journey for the medical industry

Abstract

It is well-known that big data is the buzz word in the world of research. The area ranges from economic and business activities to public administration, national security to data privacy or banking sectors to health care system. To resolve the issues, researchers as well as data analysts adopt the different advanced technique of big data. Health care systems today are not only limited to doctor-patient relationship but are also expanded to broader areas. Though clinical data is growing at an exponential rate that all need proper management, storage, security, and hence privacy to clinician data. Big data provides the platform to explore technology for clinical occupied data to provide better treatment technology and with the best suitable pathological procedure. There is no doubt that big data gives opportunities to the medical domain, which raise its treatment procedure, and bring the best solution for curable to noncurable disease through proper management of patient records. It provides proper management, analysis, and storing of observed data by following proper privacy, and provides security to the data stored. Big data requires to follow ethics for avoiding proximity and fraudulence.