Proposed application of big data analytics in healthcare at Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital

This paper gives an insight of how we can store healthcare data digitally like patient's records as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and how we can generate useful information from these records by using analytics techniques and tools which will help in saving time and money of patients as well as the doctors. This paper is fully focused towards the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (M.Y.) located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. M.Y hospital is the central India's largest government hospital. It generates large amount of heterogeneous data from different sources like patients health records, laboratory test result, electronic medical equipment, health insurance data, social media, drug research, genome research, clinical outcome, transaction and from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial medical college which is under MY hospital. To manage this data, data analytics may be used to make it useful for retrieval. Hence the concept of "big data" can be applied. Big data is characterized as extremely large data sets that can be analysed computationally to find patterns, trends, and associations, visualization, querying, information privacy and predictive analytics on large wide spread collection of data. Big data analytics can be done using Hadoop which plays an effective role in performing meaningful real-time analysis on the large volume of this data to predict the emergency situations before it happens. This paper also discusses about the EHR and the big data usage and its analytics at M.Y. hospital.