Journal of Information Resources Management ›› 2017, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (4): 5-16.doi: 10.13365/j.jirm.2017.04.005

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Current Status of Big Data Research in Medical and Healthcare

Ding Fengyi Liu Ting Chen Jing   

  • Received:2017-06-23 Online:2017-10-26 Published:2017-10-26

Abstract:

In this paper, from the point of view of the basic composition of scientific researches, the state-of-art big data researches in medical and healthcare are reviewed through analyzing related literatures retrieved from Web of Science. First, the research subjects are explored by bibliometric analysis, including countries, disciplines, institutions and funding agencies. Then, the data objects and data characteristics of the existing researches are summarized as well as the world famous open medical data resources by content analysis. At last, the main contents and themes of healthcare big data researches are analyzed from three aspects: basic research, applied research and development research.

Key words: Medical and healthcare, Big data, Open medical data, Electronic medical record(EMR), Medical information, Medical insurance data, Internet medicine, Data mining

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