Enhanced Healthcare Solutions: Leveraging Big Data and Cloud Computing

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Big data is utilized in healthcare to save costs, cure diseases, increase revenues, anticipate epidemics, and improve the quality of life by averting fatalities. This is where the voyage through big data in healthcare gets started, covering some of the most widely utilized applications of big data in the healthcare sector. The source of big data in healthcare is large electronic health databases, which are extremely difficult to maintain with standard hardware and software. Making sense of all this data and using it wisely for treatment plans, clinical operations, and medical research is a problem for the healthcare business because 80% of healthcare data is unstructured. Big data and cloud computing can help healthcare providers optimize resources, reduce administrative costs, and improve operational efficiency, making healthcare more affordable and sustainable (SDG 3). By analyzing big data, healthcare providers can identify and predict disease outbreaks, track the spread of diseases, and develop effective prevention and management strategies, contributing to the goal of reducing the global burden of disease (SDG 3). Cloud computing provides secure and scalable storage solutions for health data, ensuring privacy and security while enabling datadriven decision-making for better health outcomes (SDG 3, SDG 9). Big data analytics and cloud computing support medical research and innovation by providing researchers with access to large datasets and computational resources, leading to the development of new treatments and technologies to address global health challenges (SDG 3, SDG 9).