Healthcare

For Healthcare organisations, Big Data presents numerous challenges but understanding it is the key to improving care services. Healthcare organisations have moved towards electronic and digital records for live, operational systems but struggle to analyse the data as these systems are so mission critical that querying is slow, potentially dangerous and inflexible.

It is estimated that the amount of data currently stored within Healthcare organisations is in excess of 150 exabytes, with hospital managing over half a million electronic patient records each. These are figures that are only going to grow.

The sources of patient data range from diagnostic reports from clinicians and nurses, to researchers, clinical trial outcomes and laboratory results, which educators, policy makers, regulators and management then use to set KPIs in order to improve care service delivery.

Put simply, everyone at some point either generates, then requires access to the data.

New trends towards personalised, evidence and protocol based medicine mean that an understanding of this data is even more key, not just to make policy, but to delivering more effective treatment by sharing this insight with drug development companies and healthcare providers.

These are not just local challenges, there is a need to improve pan-country understandings of illness, disease and effective treatments; reporting up to Government bodies from a regional, local and national level requires that the data is captured, analysed, understood and reported efficiently.

There are as many reasons as there are benefits to better analysis of Healthcare Big Data, to find out more on how SAND can help with the Healthcare Big Data challenge please download the Whitepaper.

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