Abstract
Software developers and data scientists use and deal with big data to easily discover useful knowledge and find better solutions to improve healthcare services and patient safety. Big data analytics (BDA) is getting attention due to its role in decision-making across the healthcare field. Therefore, this article examines the adoption mechanism of big data analytics and management in healthcare organizations in Jordan. Additionally, it discusses health big data’s characteristics and the challenges, and limitations for health big data analytics and management in Jordan. This article proposes a conceptual framework that allows utilizing health big data. The proposed conceptual framework suggests a way to merge the existing health information system with the National Health Information Exchange (HIE), which might play a role in extracting insights from our massive datasets, increases the data availability and reduces waste in resources. When applying the framework, the collected data are processed to develop knowledge and support decision-making, which helps improve the health care quality for both the community and individuals by improving diagnosis, treatment, and other services.
Highlights
Thereafter, we study and analyze any previous attempts to realize big data in Jordan by answering two research questions: RQ1: What is the role of big data in our health system? What are the challenges?
Previous work and studies are divided into two areas: first, work related to health big data that shows the advantages and benefits of using big data in healthcare systems; second, work related to health big data analytics and frameworks
Feldman et al [8] showed that health big data and analytics serve many goals, such as reducing costs, allowing better and effective care for patients, providing real-time data access and a transparent tool for the providers, improving tool quality for researchers, assisting medical companies in integrating data collected from hospitals and home devices for safety monitoring and better services, and reducing waste
Summary
There is a considerable amount of literature on health big data. This section introduces a list of health big data challenges as mentioned by others. Kim et al [12] mentioned that health big data can serve government citizens and address major national challenges involving healthcare. Feldman et al [8] showed that health big data and analytics serve many goals, such as reducing costs, allowing better and effective care for patients, providing real-time data access and a transparent tool for the providers, improving tool quality for researchers, assisting medical companies in integrating data collected from hospitals and home devices for safety monitoring and better services, and reducing waste
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