Big Data in Healthcare: A Review on Applications, Technologies, Benefits and Challenges

The concept of big data adoption in the healthcare industry has become inevitable when it comes to data growth due to the increase of the patients' number and occurrence of new epidemics worldwide. Extended the data features and capabilities to reach the “6Vs”; Value, Volume, Velocity, Veracity, Variety, and Variability, all these reasons are imperative to make decision and policy makers adopt special tools and technologies that meet the mission and goals of providing the best healthcare services. Although the integration of the application of big data in health processes has had a favorable impact on the quality of health services and reduced the overall costs. This paper summarizes the relevant big data sources to the health care field and highlights the types, the applications of big data especially in healthcare industries. Furthermore, the paper summarizes the most relevant techniques and technologies used in healthcare big data processing, sorting and analysis.