A BIG DATA ARCHITECTURE FOR HEALTHCARE

These are testing times for organizations in the healthcare industry as it is transforming at an incredible velocity. The industry has been focusing on delivering better quality care and outcome at better prices in terms of affordability i.e. the industry is focusing more on value. The shift of healthcare towards digitization, ever increasing due to implementation and adoption of digital medical records, is now being utilized and combined with new age technologies like mobile communication, social networking, cloud computing and analytics. This paper presents an overview of applying Big data in health care, a proposed framework for the same and the challenges associated.