Big Data and Public Health Systems: Issues and Opportunities

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Over the last years, the need for changing the current model of European public health systems has been repeatedly addressed, in order to ensure their sustainability. Following this line, IT has always been referred to as one of the key instruments for enhancing the information management processes of healthcare organizations, thus contributing to the improvement and evolution of health systems. On the IT field, Big Data solutions are expected to play a main role, since they are designed for handling huge amounts of information in a fast and efficient way, allowing users to make important decisions quickly. This article reviews the main features of the European public health system model and the corresponding healthcare and management-related information systems, the challenges that these health systems are currently facing, and the possible contributions of Big Data solutions to this field. To that end, the authors share their professional experience on the Spanish public health system, and review the existing literature related to this topic.
Year of Publication
2018
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International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
Volume
4
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Special Issue on Big Data and e-Health
Number
7
Number of Pages
53-59
Date Published
03/2018
ISSN Number
1989-1660
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