Aim: The paper aims to study and present the case study of the health sector of India. The paper also aims to identify the opportunities for the application of Big data in the health sector. The major stakeholders of the system viz. doctors, hospitals, clinics, insurance companies,...

This chapter accepts that data analytics have the potential to make major improvements in the health care system. However, its focus is not big data being used within healthcare, but rather the use of healthcare data for market segmentation or profiling purposes that occurs outside of healthcare...

Increasing costs and operational inefficiency in healthcare supply chain has drawn the attention of professionals and researchers worldwide. A competent supply chain can provide a tighter control and visibility of greater focus on quality patient care. Today, Big Data Analytics (BDA) is...

Patient-related medical information is becoming increasingly available on the Internet, spurred by government open data policies and private sector data sharing initiatives. Websites such as HealthData.gov, GenBank, and PatientsLikeMe allow members of the public to access a wealth of health...

Big data should be extremely useful to medical and public health professionals attempting to engage in research, intervention, and precision medicine. The use of big data in these areas, however, has the potential to ignore a large portion of the population, because the sources of much of the...

The application of big data in health care is a fast-growing field, with many discoveries and methodologies published in the last five years. Big data refers to datasets that are not only big but also high in variety and velocity, which makes them difficult to handle using traditional tools and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that leveraging medical big data can help to better predict and control outbreaks from the outset. However, there are still challenges to overcome in the 21st century to efficiently use medical big data, promote innovation and public health activities and,...