Applications of Big Data in Healthcare

Theory and Practice

Ashish Khanna, Deepak Gupta, Nilanjan Dey
Elsevier S&T
310 pages
ISBN: 978-0128202036
March 2021

Applications of Big Data in Healthcare: Theory and Practice unites healthcare with Big Data analysis and uses the advantages of the latter to solve the problems faced by the former. The authors present the challenges faced by the healthcare industry, including capturing, storing, searching, sharing and analyzing data. This book illustrates the challenges in the applications of Big Data and suggests ways to overcome them, with a primary emphasis on data repositories, challenges, and concepts for data scientists, engineers and clinicians.