Discussion

When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.

From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.

As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.

SOLUTION

The use of big data has many potential benefits to the clinical system in the sense that it can help improve patient outcomes because big data employs the use of large amounts of data which can be used as a point of reference to identify patterns and trends that can inform clinical decisions regarding the patients (McGonigle & Mastrian,2022). Due to the vast extensiveness of the data used, it is possible to create a decision based on facts that are significant and considerate of the tiniest details regarding the patient’s health (Glassman, 2017). A good example is the use of big data in coming up with possible diseases that may affect a patient by studying their history and that of their family (Wang et al., 2018).……Please click the icon below to access entire solution at $5