The usefulness of medical big data

An essential factor in adapting to rapid changes in the health care environment is the use of data.

If it accumulates a lot and can be linked to each other and analyzed according to a specific research purpose, It can make the insights sharpen. Using this insight for patient treatment can significantly improve the quality of health care.

What Is the Impact of Data Collection in Healthcare?

In the healthcare sector, we can find the best examples of how data tracking and analysis change the world for the better. The use of Big Data in medicine is motivated by the necessity to solve both local organizational issues, such as reducing workloads and increasing profits of a medical agency, and the global problems of humanity, such as forecasting epidemics and combating existing diseases more efficiently.

Data collection in healthcare allows health systems to create holistic views of patients, personalize treatments, advance treatment methods, improve communication between doctors and patients, and enhance health outcomes. Let’s take a closer look at some case studies.

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    Proved predictive performance within 24 hours of cardiac arrest with high accuracy and expecting a reduction in actual incidence.

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    Applied to clinical trials for the development of cancer immunotherapy (European Society for Medical Oncology_ESMO 2021)