A Big Data Revolution in Health Care Sector: Opportunities, Challenges and Technological Advancements

Health care sector grows tremendously in last few decades. The health care sector has generated huge amounts of data that has huge volume, enormous velocity and vast variety. Also it comes from a variety of new sources as hospitals are now tend to implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. These sources have strained the existing capabilities of existing conventional relational database management systems. In such scenario, Big data solutions offer to harness these massive, heterogeneous and complex data sets to obtain more meaningful and knowledgeable information. This paper basically studies the impact of implementing the big data solutions on the healthcare sector, the potential opportunities, challenges and available platform and tools to implement Big data analytics in health care sector