Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1839091002 ISBN 13: 9781839091001

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020

Synopsis

Big data is a field of research that is growing rapidly, and as the Covid-19 crisis has shown, health care is an area that could benefit greatly from its increased use and application. Big data, as derived partly from the internet of things and analysed according to specific algorithms, has a large and beneficial role to play in preventative medicine, in monitoring the health of specific groups, and in improving diagnostics.

Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care focuses on various areas of health care, ranging from nutrition to cancer, and providing diverse perspectives on all of them. This book explores the entire life-cycle of big data, from information retrieval to analysis, and it shows how big data’s applications can enhance, streamline and improve services for patients and health-care professionals. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of health care and how big data is applicable to it, with background and current examples provided.

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About the Author

Poonam Tanwar is Associate Professor at the Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, India.

Vishal Jain is Associate Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management, India.

Chuan-Ming Liu is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) at the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.

Vishal Goyal is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Punjabi University Patiala, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839091002
• ISBN 13: 9781839091001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 289
• Editor: Tanwar Poonam, Jain Vishal, Liu Chuan-ming, Goyal Vishal