Big data's potential implications for data center management

Although marketers have already started to commonly use big data, some of the industries that have higher restrictions on information usage and security are just now beginning to get the ball rolling on these projects. Health Data Management recently explained that Francis Collins, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health, believes big data to be a largely untapped resource in biomedical research{earlier in the paragraph you mentions researchers as an early adopter of big data, and now you are saying that big data is an untapped resource in a research sector.

According to the source, the expert stated that health care providers are not nearly as far along in these pursuits as other industries, but that they ought to be soon considering the vast implications to public health. In fact, several officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have asserted that big data represents the future of patient care efficiency and accuracy.

In terms of forthcoming challenges that will likely slow the adoption of big data in health care, Health Data Management cited the following insights from the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association.

"What these industries have figured out is that big data becomes transformative when disparate data sets can be linked at the individual person level. In contrast, big biomedical data are scattered across institutions and intentionally isolated to protect patient privacy," JAMA's authors explained, according to the news provider.

These will be difficult, transformative challenges that might take some time to eradicate, but the capabilities of data centers should never be a hindrance.

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