Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics

Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics

ISSN 2053-7662
Correspondence

Volume and value of big healthcare data

Ivo D. Dinov

Correspondence: Ivo D. Dinov dinov@umich.edu

Author Affiliations

Statistics Online Computational Resource, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, Michigan Institute for Data Science, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA.

Abstract

Modern scientific inquiries require significant data-driven evidence and trans-disciplinary expertise to extract valuable information and gain actionable knowledge about natural processes. Effective evidencebased decisions require collection, processing and interpretation of vast amounts of complex data. The Moore's and Kryder's laws of exponential increase of computational power and information storage, respectively, dictate the need for rapid trans-disciplinary advances, technological innovation and effective mechanisms for managing and interrogating Big Healthcare Data. In this article, we review important aspects of Big Data analytics and discuss fundamental questions like: What are the challenges and opportunities associated with this biomedical, social, and healthcare data avalanche? Are there innovative statistical computing strategies to represent, model, analyze and interpret Big heterogeneous data? We present the foundation of a new compressive big data analytics (CBDA) framework for representation, modeling and inference of large, complex and heterogeneous datasets. Finally, we consider specific directions likely to impact the process of extracting information from Big healthcare data, translating that information to knowledge, and deriving appropriate actions.

Keywords: Big data, statistical modeling, analytics, compressive big data analytics, data science, prediction

ISSN 2053-7662
Volume 4
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