Title: Healthcare analytics in big data: current trends and prospects

Authors: Upasana Talukdar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India

Abstract: Healthcare analytics is a research area where many healthcare services operate on huge amounts of heterogeneous data. This leads to the generation of big healthcare-data. This paper performed a survey to answer six questions related to healthcare analytics: what are the different perspectives on the concepts of big healthcare-data? What major big data analytics approaches, tactics, tools, and strategies are being used in healthcare applications? What are the vital sources of big healthcare-data? What are the different architectures for modelling big healthcare-data? What are the leading terms that constitute the research field of healthcare analytics in big data and how rapidly is this research field expanding? Where is healthcare analytics in big data headed to the future? The analysis inferred interesting patterns, identified popular big data analytical techniques, tactics, tools, the vital sources of big healthcare-data, big healthcare-data processing architectures, growth patterns of the research field, and future trends.

Keywords: healthcare; big data; analytics; big healthcare data; applications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2022.124489

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2022 Vol.12 No.3, pp.252 - 278

Received: 23 Mar 2021
Accepted: 18 Dec 2021
Published online: 27 Jul 2022 *

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