Big Data en salud: retos y oportunidades.

Resumen

Big Data applications in the Healthcare Sector indicate a high potential for improving the overall efficiency and quality of care delivery. In this paper some initiatives in this direction are analyzed, including several technical challenges that big data analytics has still to address in the health care sector, such as: i) natural language processing, ii) text mining, iii) interoperability, iv) annotation of images and v) confidenciality and data security