Development and Application Status of Healthcare Big Data

Abstract

As informatization progresses in society, the data in the health and medical fields is soaring quickly, which promotes the healthcare big data generated. Healthcare is closely related to each individual's life and health, and healthcare big data has both brought great opportunities and challenges to the health and medical field. Therefore, the development of big data in healthcare is being focused on in the medical and health fields. At present, healthcare big data are being applied in clinical diagnosis, public health, infectious disease prevention, medical research, and drug development. However, these applications are not being used very efficiently nowadays. A large amount of big data is stored, but most of it still cannot be used because of the hazards of storing uniform and different structure data types. This paper uses literature searching to summarize the status quo of healthcare big data at present. Based on the background of big data, this paper describes the sources and characteristics of healthcare big data and figures out the promising applications in the health and medical areas. Moreover, this research also focuses on the data governance of healthcare big data and represents the problems now, such as the barrier between information due to non-uniform data collection methods, and provides development strategies.