Big data analytics in healthcare industry, encompasses the whole transformation of data, beginning from the recording of the fundamental data to predicting diseases and alerting patients. Any health concern’s big data analytics capabilities fall into three major categories, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive. Descriptive analytics quantifies past events, like for example, the number of patients, who visited the hospital in the last month. It provides considerable insights into the data which can be later used to make predictions, regarding disease trends. Predictive analytics uses these descriptive data to predict the future, which often reduces unnecessary costs, related to controllable diseases, by making early detections. Finally prescriptive analytics provides suggestions on ways to mitigate the imminent threats, suggested by predictive analytics. Hence, an efficiently functioning data analytics infrastructure, incorporates all the three processes and is invaluable in the healthcare industry. Read more at:

http://healthitanalytics.com/news/healthcare-big-data-analytics-from-description-to-prescription

Sigmaway consultants have worked with clients in benefits solutions workspace providing analytics on healthcare plans. For more details visit http://www.sigmaway.us/