Chapter 3: Internet of things (IoT) and big data analytics (BDA) in healthcare

Prableen Kaur    Department of Mathematics, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, Punjab, India

Abstract

Enormous amounts of data are being generated daily and all this data are heterogeneous in nature. This heterogenous data can be beneficial for the healthcare sector when analyzed to get the value. Here, the data include medical prescriptions, laboratory data, electronic health records, and much more. These data are known as big data and they have a large handling capacity of computational analysis for modern computing systems. Also, for analysis purposes, the Internet of Things (IoT) acts as a major source for the data, revolutionizing the way we think about ...

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