Big Data in Neonatal Health Care: Big Reach, Big Reward?

Abstract

Analog-to-digital data conversion has created massive amounts of historical and real-time health care data. Costs associated with neonatal health issues are high. Big data use in the neonatal intensive care unit has the potential to facilitate earlier detection of clinical deterioration, expedite application of efficient clinical decision-making algorithms based on real-time and historical data mining, and yield significant cost-savings.

Keywords: Big data; Clinical decision making; Cost-savings; Electronic health record (EHR); Healthcare analytics; Neonatology.