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Big Data and Big Data Technologies

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Big Data in Healthcare

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The term Big Data often refers to the massive amount of digital information that companies and government organizations collect about entities (people and things), interactions of entities with each other and operations of systems in physical or virtual living environments.

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    Pouria Amirian, Francois van Loggerenberg & Trudie Lang

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Amirian, P., van Loggerenberg, F., Lang, T. (2017). Big Data and Big Data Technologies. In: Amirian, P., Lang, T., van Loggerenberg, F. (eds) Big Data in Healthcare. SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62990-2_3

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