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To review the growth of big data in the health care industry and evaluate the opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging health analytics to optimize clinical pathways and operations.

October 1, 2014Open Access BioinformaticsOpen Access

A review of big data in health care: challenges and opportunities

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To review the growth of big data in the health care industry and evaluate the opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging health analytics to optimize clinical pathways and operations.
Examined the impact of federal policies, including the HITECH provision and the Affordable Care Act, on the adoption of electronic health records and value-based purchasing.
Synthesized the current state of administrative transactions, data governance models, and predictive analytics implementations across health care providers and payers.
Policy shifts toward accountable care organizations and value-based purchasing are actively driving health care providers and insurers to utilize large datasets to measure quality and efficiency.
Big data analytics offers significant potential to redesign US health care delivery and identify cost-effective treatment pathways, though adoption remains limited by substantial patient privacy and information governance hurdles.

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Narrative review reveals key operational and clinical opportunities for big data in health care systems, highlighting the need to overcome significant analytical and governance challenges.

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Susan White (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1db900203be71938ce381d https://doi.org/10.2147/oab.s50519

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Narrative review reveals key operational and clinical opportunities for big data in health care systems, highlighting the need to overcome significant analytical and governance challenges.

A review of big data in health care: challenges and opportunities

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A review of big data in health care: challenges and opportunities

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