Healthcare data management and analytics using big data tools

Abstract

Data have been expanding enormously in latest years, enormous amounts of structured, unstructured and semi-structured information have been produced in various areas around the globe, collectively known as big data. The health sector has produced enormous amounts of heterogeneous information that must be handled and analyzed. In this paper, we discuss about the characteristics of data generated by healthcare and how to manage this data using big data tools. We also explore tools to analyse this data and discuss the implementations of this data. A conceptual architecture of big data analytics is also given, which includes data cleaning, data injection, data management, data mining, data visualization and data analysis.