Intersection of healthcare IT environmental sector

Healthcare domains has been limited to patient's health in the past. Ever since data became digital healthcare domain has become inseparable with related domains including environment wherein we live, engineering that drives our daily life etc. As a result of this healthcare IT data is often used for analysis and determining the future possibility of diseases in an area Lets take simple example of a factory site. When we do mining of patient information and determine sample of patients affected by diseases, it becomes necessary to associate this data with environment that live in. This is not limited to air, water, soil pollution in that are and looking to see if pollution control can impact future lives in that environment. This needs knowledge of biology, healthcare , information technology and bioinformatics can be extended in such application areas Big Data For Healthcare Professional : Big data is a game changer of this decade. With changing demographics of business, information the need to transform existing relational model to noSQL Big Data model has become inevitable. In addition to the amount of information the type and format of data has taken a transformation from text to videos, feeds, pictures etc. It is more of a media these days. To be in pace and survive in this world of risks and opportunities it would be better to be safe than sorry. Learn faster, be proactive and get into trend Why is that big data will find best role in healthcare sector? Healthcare IT is mainly composed of following silos 1) Entering patient information using EHR/EMR/HIS - Information on patient details, study, visits etc is stored digitally in database. As long as health need persists this keeps growing. 2) DICOM/PACS - Picture archiving is the digitization of x-rays, scans etc. DICOM the Digital Information Communication standard is the standard adopted for such purposes. As mentioned above this is media and as size of this information grows it becomes big data 3) Digitization of insurance, billing and receipts - With the mandate to implement ICD-10 billing and related information digitization is growing big and will never end. This needs information to be stored in big data 4) Healthcare CRM - The customer relationship management is the biggest ever data feed that gets stored in NoSQL databases. This is always big and keeps growing big As such healthcare is a sector whose data is big and is expected to grow big continuously. As a healthcare professional if you are into healthcare IT, planning to take up a job in this ever growing sector learn NoSQL with us