ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET

Course name:
PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS

Course number: HCI 314

Assignment 1 (Week 8)

Write a short essay of 250-300 words in APA style.

Assignment title or task:
(You can write a question)
How is big data analytics utilized in public health informatics
to analyze and predict disease trends? Provide examples from
recent studies.
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CRN XXXX

Submission date: XXXX

Big Data can be considered as massive and continually generated digital datasets that are
produced via interactions with online technologies. the use of Big Data Analytics is
appropriate data storytelling which may contribute to making decisions with both lower
risk and data support. This, in turn, can benefit healthcare stakeholders. To take
advantage of the potential massive amounts of data in healthcare and to ensure that the
right intervention to the right patient is properly timed, personalized, and potentially
beneficial to all components of the healthcare system such as the payer, patient, and
management, analytics of large datasets must connect communities involved in data
analytics and healthcare informatics . Big Data Analytics can provide insight into clinical
data and thus facilitate informed decision-making about the diagnosis and treatment of
patients, prevention of diseases or others. Big Data Analytics can also improve the
efficiency of healthcare organizations by realizing the data potential.
Examples
-Patients Predictions For Improved Staffing, a problem that any shift manager faces:
how many people do I put on staff at any given period?
-Electronic Health Records (EHRs), It’s the most widespread application of big data in
medicine.
-Real-Time Alerting, This is already trending as one of the business intelligence
buzzwords in 2021
-Prevent Opioid Abuse In The US, an application of big data analytics in healthcare
might be the answer everyone is looking for: data scientists at Blue Cross Blue Shield
have started working with analytical experts at Fuzzy Logix to tackle the problem.
-Predictive Analytics In Healthcare, one of the biggest business intelligence trends for
two years in a row, but the potential applications reach far beyond business and much
further into the future.

References
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8733917/
https://www.datapine.com/blog/big-data-examples-in-healthcare/#big-data-in-healthcare-
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