To extract useful information from the flood of data generated by patient monitoring devices, healthcare providers are increasingly turning to big data analytics and other analytics solutions, observed Frost & Sullivan.

To extract usable information from the flood of data generated from patient monitoring devices, healthcare providers are increasingly turning to big data analytics and other analytics solutions, observed Frost & Sullivan. Predictive analytics is becoming an important technology because it can not only track the current state of the patient’s health but also predict future illnesses. The success of predictive analytics attracted $566.3 million in healthcare data analytics investments last year, according to Frost & Sullivan.

Source: blogs.hbr.org
Author: Bill Franks