This document discusses how big data can be used in healthcare to improve outcomes. It describes how new IT infrastructure, data security, and data scientists can unlock value from big data. Combining these innovations allows for personalized medicine through customized treatment plans. Collaboration between data experts and health professionals is key to detecting unknown patterns in data that can enhance discovery. Examples are provided of how big data has helped reduce mortality from sepsis and supported medical research through shared data initiatives.

1. New IT infrastructures can support innovative analyses.
Investing in new IT infrastructure,
ensuring data security and privacy,
and utilizing data scientists can
unlock the value buried in Big Data.
Moving from a data warehouse structure to a “data lake” allows the needed flexibility
and scale to collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of diverse raw data in close to
real-time.
By combining IT innovations in software, apps, and big data
analytic systems, the Veterans Health Administration and
Facebook collaborated to improve real-time suicide risk
prevention services to vets.
Big Data supports personalized medicine.
Ensuring data security and privacy is paramount in the big data world.
Collection and analysis of diverse data (numbers, images, text, etc.)
enables providers to deliver patient centered care by prescribing
customized treatment plans driven by patients and their providers.
Utilizing data scientists enhances discovery.
Collaboration between data scientists, health experts, and computer scientists is
key to detecting and understanding previously unknown data patterns.
To learn more about these innovations, check out the Health Affairs, "Creating Value in Health Through Big
Data: Opportunities and Policy Implications," written by Joachim Roski, George W. Bo-Linn, and Timothy A.
Andrews at www.boozallen.com/insights/insight-detail/transforming-health-care-with-big-data.
BIG DATA USE
By harnessing the power of big data analytics, the Sisters of Mercy Health
System in St. Louis was able to reduce the incidence and mortality
rates of severe sepsis and septic shock among its hospital patients.
BIG DATA USE
500 billionfile cabinets by 2020.
The size and amount of health care data will
increase from the equivalent of the contents
of 10 billion four-drawer file cabinets, to the
equivalent of
Health organizations can take
steps now to harvest the
tremendous potential this data
has for better decision-making,
improved outcomes, and lower
costs.
By adopting consent procedures for use and reuse of
patient's data, The Personal Genome Project was able
to support multiple research projects.
BIG DATA USE
Big Data has the potential
to create approximately
$300 billionin value annually in the health care sector.
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of U.S. hospitals have
adopted an electronic
health record system.
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