Healthcare informatics and analytics in big data

Healthcare informatics and analytics (HCI&A), also known as healthcare information technology (HIT), healthcare IS (HIS), and so on, has rapidly evolved with the emerge of advanced data analytics technologies applied to the medical domain. Currently, HCI&A has emerged as an important area of study for both practitioners and academic researchers. Accordingly, this emerging field has prompted for an inquiry of the opportunities and challenges related to management of healthcare data, and the application of advanced data analytics to the contemporary healthcare industry. In order to contribute to the literature of healthcare informatics and analytics, this study proposes an HCI&A framework under the context of big data, which covers four important segments such as the underlying technologies, system applications, system evaluations,…