With the arrival of technology and rising amount of data (Big Data) there is a need towards implementation of effective analytical techniques (Big Data Analytics) in health sector which provides stakeholders with new insights that have the potential to advance personalized care to improve patient outcomes and avoid unnecessary costs. This chapter covers how to evaluate this big volume of data for unknown and useful facts, associations, patterns, trends which can give birth to new line of handling of diseases and provide high quality healthcare at lower cost to all citizens. This chapter gives a wide insight of introduction to Big Data Analytics in health domain, processing steps of BDA, Challenges and Future scope of research in healthcare.
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