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The healthcare industry has generated large amounts of data. While most data is stored in hard copy form, the current trend is toward rapid digitisation of these large amounts of data.

These massive quantities of data, also known as ‘big data’, hold the promise of supporting a wide range of medical and healthcare functions, including among others clinical decision support, disease surveillance, and population health management.

For the big data scientist, there is, amongst this vast amount and array of data, opportunity.

By discovering associations and understanding patterns and trends within the data, big data analytics have the potential to improve care, save lives and lower costs.

A recent review paper published by Health Information Science and Systems notes that big data analytics applications in healthcare take advantage of the explosion in data to extract insights for making better informed decisions.

Read the full review of the paper at:

http://www.hissjournal.com/content/pdf/2047-2501-2-3.pdf

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