Impending Challenges for the Use of Big Data

Vojtech Huser; James J Cimino

doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.10.060

Impending Challenges for the Use of Big Data

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jul 1;95(3):890-894. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.10.060. Epub 2015 Nov 5.

Authors

Vojtech Huser¹, James J Cimino²

Affiliations

¹ Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Electronic address: vojtech.huser@nih.gov.
² Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

Abstract

Big Data in healthcare promise to answer real world questions that can be difficult to address with randomized clinical trials. In this perspective article, we analyze five current Big Data informatics challenges of (1) data volume, (2) research oversight by Institutional Review Boards, (3) semantic data integration (4) data formats, and (5) access to knowledge bases from a biomedical informatics perspective. After briefly describing each challenge, we discuss examples of how are being addressed today. With the ever increasing number of Big Data healthcare repositories, the emphasis is shifting from mere data aggregation to advanced data transformation and analysis.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

Data Collection / methods
Data Collection / statistics & numerical data
Data Mining / methods
Data Mining / statistics & numerical data
Data Mining / trends*
Data Warehousing / methods
Databases, Factual*
Databases, Genetic / statistics & numerical data
Ethics Committees, Research / organization & administration
Forecasting
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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