Compared to other industries, healthcare as a whole has been a late adopter of big data predictive analytics. This may be due in part because of concerns about patient confidentiality and fears of security breaches on open source Hadoop based systems. Demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) for big data solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers can also be a challenge.
Ironically, most healthcare organizations have an abundance of patient data at their disposal that they could use to benefit patient care and medical research while driving down costs...if they could only implement a big data solution.
This paper shows how one healthcare institution—Penn Medicine—is using big data solutions to derive new insights and improve patient care.
