Review ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsBig Data in Medical Applications and Health CareLidong Wang, Cheryl Ann AlexanderBig Data can unify all patient related data to get a 360-degree view of the patient to analyze and predict outcomes. It can improve clinical practices, new drug development and health care financing process. It offers a lot of benefits such as early disease detection, fraud detection and better healthcare quality and efficiency. This paper introduces the Big Data concept … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 15 May 2015 · 14,953 accessesView PDFCite