Health Portals and Big Data Visualization(HPORT-BD 2017)

Data has always been key to measure the quality of care, analyze health trends, predict epidemics and improve treatments. But today, we can do this faster and better than ever before. Health Portals and Visualization Tools can help healthcare organizations leverage analytics to improve their processes and the outcomes of care. Analyzing Big Data holds tremendous promises for improving healthcare. There is a huge amount of existing data distributed in several repositories and new data generated daily by billions of connected devices or self generated by people. It is necessary to find more appropriate and effective ways to leverage these data in line with privacy and ethical principles, to access them, to understand the purposes for their adoption and their quality in order to improve and optimize care processes, diseases diagnosis, personalized care and in general the healthcare system. Patients and healthcare professionals are profiting from big data. There is a need to develop approaches that allow for humans and machines to cooperate more closely on exploiting big data for a better health. This includes guarantees on the trustworthiness of information, a focus on generating actionable advice, and improving the interactivity and understandability of big data processing and analytics. The requirements of different target groups - researchers, doctors and care-givers, or patients and general population – may require different focus. When healthcare organizations envision the future of big data, they often think of using it for analyzing textbased notes. Current analytics technologies for the most part make use of discrete data and struggle to capitalize on all of the valuable clinical information captured in physicians’ and nurses’ notes. Big data indexing techniques, and some of the new work finding information in textual fields, could indeed add real value to healthcare analytics in the future. With the overlay of advanced big data analytics, healthcare providers and executives can make great leaps ahead in terms of improving patient outcomes, while lowering the costs of doing so.