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Big data and analytics in healthcare: Introduction to the special section

Authors: Atreyi Kankanhalli, Jungpil Hahn, Sharon Tan, Gordon Gao

Published in: Information Systems Frontiers | Issue 2/2016

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Aging populations and lifestyle changes pose increasing pressures on healthcare systems around the world. These trends accompanied by the digitization of health and patient data through advances in information technology, including medical sensors, have led to the generation of large volumes of primary and secondary data in the healthcare domain. The demand for big data is also spurred by a shift to evidence-based medicine as opposed to subjective clinical decisions. While the trove of data offers significant opportunities for improving healthcare delivery, management, and policy making, new information systems and approaches are needed to make effective use of the big data. Indeed, big data has been referred to as data that is too large and complex to be analyzed and managed by traditional computing tools. …

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Title: Big data and analytics in healthcare: Introduction to the special section
Authors: Atreyi Kankanhalli
Jungpil Hahn
Sharon Tan
Gordon Gao
Publication date: 01-04-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Information Systems Frontiers / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-016-9641-2

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