Addressing the Complexities of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: The Diabetes Screening Case

Australasian Journal of Information Systems

Daswin De Silva²  Herbert F. Jelinek³  Frada Burstein⁴  Andrew Stranieri¹ 

[1] Federation University, Victoria, Australia.;La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia;Charles Sturt University, Albury, New South Wales, Australia;Monash University, Victoria, Australia

关键词: big data analytics;    health informatics;    clinical decision support;    translational research;    business analytics;    information fusion;   

DOI  :  10.3127/ajis.v19i0.1183

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: University of Canberra * Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering

【 摘 要 】

The healthcare industry generates a high throughput of medical, clinical and omics data of varying complexity and features. Clinical decision-support is gaining widespread attention as medical institutions and governing bodies turn towards better management of this data for effective and efficient healthcare delivery and quality assured outcomes. Amass of data across all stages, from disease diagnosis to palliative care, is further indication of the opportunities and challenges to effective data management, analysis, prediction and optimization techniques as parts of knowledge management in clinical environments. Big Data analytics (BDA) presents the potential to advance this industry with reforms in clinical decision-support and translational research. However, adoption of big data analytics has been slow due to complexities posed by the nature of healthcare data. The success of these systems is hard to predict, so further research is needed to provide a robust framework to ensure investment in BDA is justified. In this paper we investigate these complexities from the perspective of updated Information Systems (IS) participation theory. We present a case study on a large diabetes screening project to integrate, converge and derive expedient insights from such an accumulation of data and make recommendations for a successful BDA implementation grounded in a participatory framework and the specificities of big data in healthcare context.

【 授权许可】

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