What is big data analytics in healthcare?

Question

Can anyone explain how can big data analytics is used in healthcare?

Answer 1

The healthcare industry has a lot of data and it is important to use that data to identify the disease of the patient fast and efficiently. Also, there will be a lot of unstructured data like X-rays and MRI scans of patients in image format. So, Big Data analytics in the healthcare industry is necessary to analyze the huge volume of data and unstructured data available to identify diseases.

Big data analytics can also be used to identify patterns in the spread of new diseases. This helps doctors, clinicians, and also government to take measures to control the spread of disease.

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