Data Analytics has many positive impacts and negative impacts on Healthcare. Data analysts collect and analyze data for the doctors and the medical professionals to make decisions about the patients’ health conditions. It is convenient for the doctors and other medical professionals to help the patients by using data. Doctors can keep the patients’ medical records by using data. Data can cause patients to worry about privacy.
Positive Impacts:
Doctors do not need chronically ill patients to stay in the hospital by applying data analytics.
Doctors and medical workers can access remote data to fully understand patient’s illness or other health conditions when they access data anywhere.
Doctors can get information about the patients’ health conditions from data.
Negative Impacts:
Patients are concerned about the security of their medical records.
Medical record data can ruin and damage the patients’ reputations.
Medical record data can be harmful and derimental to the patients.