A Research on Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Industry

Big Data has changed the way we manage, analyze and leverage data in any industry. One of the most promising areas where it can be applied to make a change is healthcare. Healthcare analytics have the potential to reduce costs of treatment, predict outbreaks of epidemics, avoid preventable diseases and improve the quality of life in general. Average human lifespan is increasing along world population, which poses new challenges to today's treatment delivery methods. In this article, we would like to address the need of big data in health care industry, big data analytics advantages, big data applications and so on.