The Challenges of Big Data Governance in Healthcare

Abstract

Big data starts to be employed in some industries but not yet widely or properly adopted in healthcare industry. This research paper aims at studying the usages and challenges of big data in healthcare sector. Governance of big data will include the domains of strategy, process, people, policy and technology and automation. Among the challenges identified in the healthcare sector, reliability and integrity are especially important because it is related to life and death. Big data governance for policy maker, authentication for data integrity, and future development of healthcare big data governance are discussed here. Moreover, some future development questions are raised in this paper for further study, which will improve the quality of life and lead to a better and healthier world under the proper and adequate big data governance environment.