A brief tutorial on Big Data and its applications to healthcare. The discussion is centered around technical aspects related to this method of computing rather than concrete examples of its use in medical practice.
This document discusses big data analytics in healthcare. It begins by defining translational bioinformatics and discussing the challenges and opportunities of big data. It then outlines how big data is generated from a variety of clinical, administrative, and other sources. Technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL databases are important for analyzing large and diverse healthcare datasets. The document argues that big data analytics can help innovate and accelerate healthcare by enabling predictive analytics, personalized medicine, and improving outcomes while reducing costs.
Big data is generating hype in healthcare, but true value will come as technical expertise and security improve. While most healthcare organizations currently have limited big data use beyond basic analytics, needs will grow as data sources expand through devices and the "internet of things". Predictive analytics using socioeconomic and other data could help predict patient outcomes and appointments. Prescriptive analytics may eventually provide personalized treatment paths for patients. Drug discovery may also be enhanced through big data. However, barriers like a lack of skills and integrated security currently limit big data to research applications.
Baptist Health: Solving Healthcare Problems with Big DataMapR Technologies
Editor’s Note: Download the complimentary MapR Guide to Big Data in Healthcare for more information: https://mapr.com/mapr-guide-big-data-healthcare/
There is no better example of the important role that data plays in our lives than in matters of our health and our healthcare. There’s a growing wealth of health-related data out there, and it’s playing an increasing role in improving patient care, population health, and healthcare economics.
Join this webinar to hear how Baptist Health is using big data and advanced analytics to address a myriad of healthcare challenges—from patient to payer—through their consumer- centric approach.
MapR Technologies will cover broader big data healthcare trends and production use cases that demonstrate how to converge data and compute power to deliver data-driven healthcare applications.
This prevention is a reflection of my vision on how Big Data impacts healthcare and the efforts that Oracle and VX Healthcare Analytics put into making Big Data work in the patient profiling space
HP & Sogeti Healthcare Big Data Presentation for Discover 2015Robert LeRoy
This document discusses a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Sogeti to provide data-driven solutions for healthcare. It introduces Indranil Sarkar and Bob LeRoy, leaders from Sogeti and HP Alliance, and describes their experience. It also outlines Sogeti's global presence and capabilities in consulting. The document then discusses trends in healthcare IT, potential solutions around areas like patient engagement and analytics, and how those map to the healthcare value chain. It introduces HP's Analytics Platform System for handling large datasets and provides an example healthcare analytics demo using this platform with PowerBI.
It is indeed boom time for Big Data in Healthcare. According to CBE insights, Big Data startups garnered USD 400M in investors funding in first half 2014 as compared to USD133M in the whole of 2013.
This document provides an overview of a panel discussion on big data in biology and medicine. The panel objectives were to provide an overview of big data's future in healthcare and life sciences, discuss how organizations can structure themselves to capitalize on big data, learn the fundamentals of Hadoop platforms and architectures, and discover tools for big data analytics. The panel was led by Ali Sanousi and took place at Harvard Innovation Lab from June 26th to May 1st, 2013.
The presentation discusses how big data and population health management tools can help reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes. It explains that big data allows for deeper analysis of existing data to make better business decisions. Advanced analytics can help identify opportunities to improve clinical quality and financial performance. With proper outreach and lifestyle changes, big data tools may enable fewer hospital visits.
This document discusses big data analytics in healthcare. It begins by defining translational bioinformatics and discussing the challenges and opportunities of big data. It then outlines how big data is generated from a variety of clinical, administrative, and other sources. Technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL databases are important for analyzing large and diverse healthcare datasets. The document argues that big data analytics can help innovate and accelerate healthcare by enabling predictive analytics, personalized medicine, and improving outcomes while reducing costs.
Big data is generating hype in healthcare, but true value will come as technical expertise and security improve. While most healthcare organizations currently have limited big data use beyond basic analytics, needs will grow as data sources expand through devices and the "internet of things". Predictive analytics using socioeconomic and other data could help predict patient outcomes and appointments. Prescriptive analytics may eventually provide personalized treatment paths for patients. Drug discovery may also be enhanced through big data. However, barriers like a lack of skills and integrated security currently limit big data to research applications.
Baptist Health: Solving Healthcare Problems with Big DataMapR Technologies
Editor’s Note: Download the complimentary MapR Guide to Big Data in Healthcare for more information: https://mapr.com/mapr-guide-big-data-healthcare/
There is no better example of the important role that data plays in our lives than in matters of our health and our healthcare. There’s a growing wealth of health-related data out there, and it’s playing an increasing role in improving patient care, population health, and healthcare economics.
Join this webinar to hear how Baptist Health is using big data and advanced analytics to address a myriad of healthcare challenges—from patient to payer—through their consumer- centric approach.
MapR Technologies will cover broader big data healthcare trends and production use cases that demonstrate how to converge data and compute power to deliver data-driven healthcare applications.
This prevention is a reflection of my vision on how Big Data impacts healthcare and the efforts that Oracle and VX Healthcare Analytics put into making Big Data work in the patient profiling space
HP & Sogeti Healthcare Big Data Presentation for Discover 2015Robert LeRoy
This document discusses a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Sogeti to provide data-driven solutions for healthcare. It introduces Indranil Sarkar and Bob LeRoy, leaders from Sogeti and HP Alliance, and describes their experience. It also outlines Sogeti's global presence and capabilities in consulting. The document then discusses trends in healthcare IT, potential solutions around areas like patient engagement and analytics, and how those map to the healthcare value chain. It introduces HP's Analytics Platform System for handling large datasets and provides an example healthcare analytics demo using this platform with PowerBI.
It is indeed boom time for Big Data in Healthcare. According to CBE insights, Big Data startups garnered USD 400M in investors funding in first half 2014 as compared to USD133M in the whole of 2013.
This document provides an overview of a panel discussion on big data in biology and medicine. The panel objectives were to provide an overview of big data's future in healthcare and life sciences, discuss how organizations can structure themselves to capitalize on big data, learn the fundamentals of Hadoop platforms and architectures, and discover tools for big data analytics. The panel was led by Ali Sanousi and took place at Harvard Innovation Lab from June 26th to May 1st, 2013.
The presentation discusses how big data and population health management tools can help reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes. It explains that big data allows for deeper analysis of existing data to make better business decisions. Advanced analytics can help identify opportunities to improve clinical quality and financial performance. With proper outreach and lifestyle changes, big data tools may enable fewer hospital visits.
User Experience - How Sensors and Big Data will change your Healthcare experi...Mark D'Cunha
In the Hospital of the Future, Big Data is one of your doctors.
The growing use of sensors will drive huge volumes of data that will change your Healthcare experience. We must learn how to create better user experiences for monitoring, fitness and health.
This presentation looks at the role of Big Data with Healthcare. Healthcare is big spending area for both the private and public sector as such it is important to look at ways to improve the delivery of healthcare to patient care.
Big Data in Healthcare Made Simple: Where It Stands Today and Where It’s GoingHealth Catalyst
The document discusses big data in healthcare, where it currently stands and its future potential uses. It explains that while big data is not necessary for most healthcare organizations currently, emerging technologies like wearable devices and whole genome sequencing will generate large amounts of diverse data requiring big data solutions. It also outlines some barriers to big data adoption in healthcare like a lack of security and need for data science expertise. The document envisions future applications of big data like predictive analytics, using additional data sources to better predict patient outcomes and needs.
BIG Data & Hadoop Applications in HealthcareSkillspeed
Explore the applications of BIG Data & Hadoop in Healthcare via Skillspeed.
BIG Data & Hadoop in Healthcare is a key differentiator, especially in terms of providing superior patient care. They are used for optimizing clinical trials, disease detection & boosting healthcare profitability.
To get more details regarding BIG Data & Hadoop, please visit - www.SkillSpeed.com
Health care and big data with hadoop – Beacuse prevention is better than cureEdureka!
The document discusses how big data and Hadoop can help address challenges in healthcare and fulfill key wishes or goals. It outlines common healthcare challenges like overdependence on manual caretaking and lack of continuous remote patient monitoring. Key wishes are reducing unnecessary doctor visits, anticipating patient conditions, knowing best nearby facilities, and preventing billing fraud. Hadoop allows storing all healthcare data in its native format and integrating data from devices via the Internet of Things. This enables improved remote patient monitoring, real-time recommendations on care and facilities, and a more holistic view of patients and the healthcare system. An encryption demo is also provided.
This document discusses how big data can be used in the healthcare sector to improve outcomes and reduce costs. It begins by defining big data and describing how large corporations have been using big data for years. It then draws a parallel between how big data helped answer what advertising worked for companies like Google, and how big data can help determine which medical treatments are effective. The document outlines some key characteristics of big data in healthcare, such as different types of data silos and the 4 Vs of big data. It also discusses drivers for adoption of big data in healthcare and provides examples of how big data can enable quality improvement and cost cutting. Challenges to adoption are outlined as well as some leading big data companies in healthcare. The document
This document presents an MSc thesis on big data in healthcare. It discusses how the healthcare sector is generating large amounts of data and how big data can be used in healthcare. The document outlines a plan to first discuss why big data is important in healthcare, providing examples of data usage history and current applications. It then details how big data can be collected, processed and analyzed in the healthcare sector using tools like Hadoop, Hive, Pig and Sqoop. The future potential of big data in healthcare is also envisioned, with real-time uses.
The document discusses using big data and Hadoop in healthcare. It outlines challenges in healthcare like a lack of continuous observation and data storage. Hadoop can help address this by making large amounts of healthcare data less expensive and more available. This would allow doctors more insight into patient conditions. The Internet of Things is also discussed where devices can collect patient readings and send them to remote hospitals. The presentation concludes with a demo of Hadoop used with a healthcare dataset.
This document discusses big data solutions for healthcare. It outlines trends driving huge increases in healthcare data from sources like medical imaging, patient monitoring, and genomics. This data holds value for personalized medicine, clinical decision support, and fraud detection. However, managing such varied and voluminous data presents challenges around volume, variety, and velocity. The document proposes methods for managing big data through distributed storage, optimization, security, and specialized platforms. Use cases are highlighted for connecting new analytics to healthcare applications and services.
Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations and AnalyticsPerficient, Inc.
Big Data technologies represent a major shift that is here to stay. Big Data enables the use of all types of data, including unstructured data like clinical notes and medical images, for new insights. Advanced analytics like predictive modeling and text mining will become more prevalent and intelligent with Big Data. Big Data will impact application development and require changes to data management approaches. Technologies like Hadoop, NoSQL databases, and semantic modeling will be important for healthcare Big Data.
The data explosion along the care cycle (Dell Healthcare)Eric Van 't Hoff
The data explosion along the care cycle
Healthcare data is growing exponentially due to increased digitization of patient records, medical images, lab results, and other clinical information. This data deluge is creating new challenges for healthcare organizations. Specifically:
- Clinicians are overwhelmed by the huge amount of data generated for each patient. Too much information can slow decision making.
- Growing storage in silos makes it difficult to share critical patient data across different systems, which can affect care. Storage and IT costs are rising dramatically.
- Caregivers lack resources to integrate technologies due to being overloaded by growing patient demands.
Dell aims to address these challenges by optimizing healthcare storage architectures. Dell's portfolio includes high performance
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: Which is Right for Healthcare?Health Catalyst
The data lake style of a data warehouse architecture is a flexible alternative to a traditional data warehouse. It allows for unstructured data. When a warehousing approach requires that the data be in a structured format, there are constraints on the analyses that can be performed because not all of the data can be structured early. The data lake concept is very similar to our Late-Binding approach in that data lakes are our source marts. We increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these through: 1. Metadata, 2. Source Mart Designer, and 3. Subject Area Mart Designer.
Seven Ways DOS™ Simplifies the Complexities of Healthcare ITHealth Catalyst
Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) is a revolutionary architecture that addresses the digital and data problems confronting healthcare now and in the future. It is an analytics galaxy that encompasses data platforms, machine learning, analytics applications, and the fabric to stitch all these components together.
DOS addresses these seven critical areas of healthcare IT:
Healthcare data management and acquisition
Integrating data in mergers and acquisitions
Enabling a personal health record
Scaling existing, homegrown data warehouses
Ingesting the human health data ecosystem
Providers becoming payers
Extending the life and current value of EHR investments
This white paper illustrates these healthcare system needs detail and explains the attributes of DOS. Read how DOS is the right technology for tackling healthcare’s big issues, including big data, physician burnout, rising healthcare expenses, and the productivity backfire created by other healthcare technologies.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
This document discusses using big data analytics for operational and clinical decision support in healthcare. It outlines how analytics can help optimize decisions for patients, administrators, providers and policy makers by analyzing structured and unstructured data from various sources. The document proposes creating an operational decision support center and clinical decision support center to help coordinate patient care, anticipate needs, detect bottlenecks and support clinical decisions with data-driven insights. The goal is to move from rule-based systems to more precise, predictive and transparent decision making approaches.
Big data is impacting the healthcare industry by enhancing efficiency, increasing productivity, and helping anticipate potential issues. The document outlines how big data plays a role in healthcare through benefits like detecting illnesses early, customized treatment, and reducing waste. It also discusses challenges like privacy concerns, fragmented data from different sources, and ensuring data integrity when sharing information.
Microsoft: A Waking Giant In Healthcare Analytics and Big DataHealth Catalyst
In 2005, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare embarked upon a strategic Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) initiative with the Microsoft technology platform as the foundation. Dale Sanders was CIO at Northwestern and led the development of Northwestern’s Microsoft-based EDW. At that time, Microsoft as an EDW platform was not en vogue and there were many who doubted the success of the Northwestern project. While other organizations were spending millions of dollars and years developing EDW’s and analytics on other platforms, Northwestern achieved great and rapid value at a fraction of the cost of the more typical technology platforms. Now, there are more healthcare data warehouses built around Microsoft products than any other vendor. The risky bet on Microsoft in 2005 paid off.
Ten years ago, critics didn’t believe that Microsoft could scale in the second generation of relational data warehouses, but they did. More recently, many of these same pundits have criticized Microsoft for missing the technology wave du jour in cloud offerings, mobile technology, and big data. But, once again, Microsoft has been quietly reengineering its culture and products, and as a result, they now offer the best value and most visionary platform for cloud services, big data, and analytics in healthcare.
In this context, Dale will talk about:
His up and down journey with Microsoft as an Air Force and healthcare CIO, and why he is now more bullish on Microsoft like never before
A quick review of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model and Closed Loop Analytics in healthcare, and how Microsoft products relate to both
The rise of highly specialized, cloud-based analytic services and their value to healthcare organizations’ analytics strategies
Microsoft’s transformation from a closed-system, desktop PC company to an open-system consumer and business infrastructure company
The current transition period of enterprise data warehouses between the decline of relational databases and the rise of non-relational databases, and the new Microsoft products, notably Azure and the Analytic Platform System (APS), that bridge the transition of skills and technology while still integrating with core products like Office, Active Directory, and System Center
Microsoft’s strategy with its PowerX product line, and geospatial analysis and machine learning visualization tools
This webinar will focus on the technical and practical aspects of creating and deploying predictive analytics. We have seen an emerging need for predictive analytics across clinical, operational, and financial domains. One pitfall we’ve seen with predictive analytics is that while many people with access to free tools can develop predictive models, many organizations fail to provide a sufficient infrastructure in which the models are deployed in a consistent, reliable way and truly embedded into the analytics environment. We will survey techniques that are used to get better predictions at scale. This webinar won’t be an intense mathematical treatment of the latest predictive algorithms, but will rather be a guide for organizations that want to embed predictive analytics into their technical and operational workflows.
Topics will include:
Reducing the time it takes to develop a model
Automating model training and retraining
Feature engineering
Deploying the model in the analytics environment
Deploying the model in the clinical environment
This document discusses how Hadoop can enable healthcare by providing a modern data platform. Currently, electronic medical records and data warehouses have limitations in processing high volumes of real-time data and performing advanced analytics. A Hadoop-based big data platform can ingest all healthcare data in its native format and in real time. This allows for use cases like early detection of sepsis, predicting readmissions, and advanced research. The architecture is designed to be scalable, use open source tools, and store all healthcare data for advanced analytics to improve patient care and outcomes.
Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are leveraging Big Data technology to capture data in order to get a better insight into patient centric and research centric information. Combining these two requires extreme computing power. We will discuss use cases where Big Data technology was instrumental ; Merging Genomic and Clinical Data in order to advance personalized Medicine
The document discusses the differential diagnosis of chest pain. It notes that the chest x-ray and history are the most important tests to evaluate non-cardiac chest pain. The history requires a meticulous examination of all relevant details. Many life-threatening and non-life threatening potential causes of chest pain are outlined, including cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, psychiatric, and neurological conditions. Thoracic outlet syndromes are given a detailed differential diagnosis. The evaluation of chest pain is emphasized to be complex, requiring a defined diagnosis beyond simply ruling out heart attack.
Powerpoint Presentation - exported from Keynote Mac presentation. Introduction to Cardiac Point of Care U/S. Talk was meant for Emergency Medicine Residents PG1-3 level. Modest tweaks of font and spacing required prior to your own use. Associated PDF file in original Keynote format.
User Experience - How Sensors and Big Data will change your Healthcare experi...Mark D'Cunha
In the Hospital of the Future, Big Data is one of your doctors.
The growing use of sensors will drive huge volumes of data that will change your Healthcare experience. We must learn how to create better user experiences for monitoring, fitness and health.
This presentation looks at the role of Big Data with Healthcare. Healthcare is big spending area for both the private and public sector as such it is important to look at ways to improve the delivery of healthcare to patient care.
Big Data in Healthcare Made Simple: Where It Stands Today and Where It’s GoingHealth Catalyst
The document discusses big data in healthcare, where it currently stands and its future potential uses. It explains that while big data is not necessary for most healthcare organizations currently, emerging technologies like wearable devices and whole genome sequencing will generate large amounts of diverse data requiring big data solutions. It also outlines some barriers to big data adoption in healthcare like a lack of security and need for data science expertise. The document envisions future applications of big data like predictive analytics, using additional data sources to better predict patient outcomes and needs.
BIG Data & Hadoop Applications in HealthcareSkillspeed
Explore the applications of BIG Data & Hadoop in Healthcare via Skillspeed.
BIG Data & Hadoop in Healthcare is a key differentiator, especially in terms of providing superior patient care. They are used for optimizing clinical trials, disease detection & boosting healthcare profitability.
To get more details regarding BIG Data & Hadoop, please visit - www.SkillSpeed.com
Health care and big data with hadoop – Beacuse prevention is better than cureEdureka!
The document discusses how big data and Hadoop can help address challenges in healthcare and fulfill key wishes or goals. It outlines common healthcare challenges like overdependence on manual caretaking and lack of continuous remote patient monitoring. Key wishes are reducing unnecessary doctor visits, anticipating patient conditions, knowing best nearby facilities, and preventing billing fraud. Hadoop allows storing all healthcare data in its native format and integrating data from devices via the Internet of Things. This enables improved remote patient monitoring, real-time recommendations on care and facilities, and a more holistic view of patients and the healthcare system. An encryption demo is also provided.
This document discusses how big data can be used in the healthcare sector to improve outcomes and reduce costs. It begins by defining big data and describing how large corporations have been using big data for years. It then draws a parallel between how big data helped answer what advertising worked for companies like Google, and how big data can help determine which medical treatments are effective. The document outlines some key characteristics of big data in healthcare, such as different types of data silos and the 4 Vs of big data. It also discusses drivers for adoption of big data in healthcare and provides examples of how big data can enable quality improvement and cost cutting. Challenges to adoption are outlined as well as some leading big data companies in healthcare. The document
This document presents an MSc thesis on big data in healthcare. It discusses how the healthcare sector is generating large amounts of data and how big data can be used in healthcare. The document outlines a plan to first discuss why big data is important in healthcare, providing examples of data usage history and current applications. It then details how big data can be collected, processed and analyzed in the healthcare sector using tools like Hadoop, Hive, Pig and Sqoop. The future potential of big data in healthcare is also envisioned, with real-time uses.
The document discusses using big data and Hadoop in healthcare. It outlines challenges in healthcare like a lack of continuous observation and data storage. Hadoop can help address this by making large amounts of healthcare data less expensive and more available. This would allow doctors more insight into patient conditions. The Internet of Things is also discussed where devices can collect patient readings and send them to remote hospitals. The presentation concludes with a demo of Hadoop used with a healthcare dataset.
This document discusses big data solutions for healthcare. It outlines trends driving huge increases in healthcare data from sources like medical imaging, patient monitoring, and genomics. This data holds value for personalized medicine, clinical decision support, and fraud detection. However, managing such varied and voluminous data presents challenges around volume, variety, and velocity. The document proposes methods for managing big data through distributed storage, optimization, security, and specialized platforms. Use cases are highlighted for connecting new analytics to healthcare applications and services.
Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations and AnalyticsPerficient, Inc.
Big Data technologies represent a major shift that is here to stay. Big Data enables the use of all types of data, including unstructured data like clinical notes and medical images, for new insights. Advanced analytics like predictive modeling and text mining will become more prevalent and intelligent with Big Data. Big Data will impact application development and require changes to data management approaches. Technologies like Hadoop, NoSQL databases, and semantic modeling will be important for healthcare Big Data.
The data explosion along the care cycle (Dell Healthcare)Eric Van 't Hoff
The data explosion along the care cycle
Healthcare data is growing exponentially due to increased digitization of patient records, medical images, lab results, and other clinical information. This data deluge is creating new challenges for healthcare organizations. Specifically:
- Clinicians are overwhelmed by the huge amount of data generated for each patient. Too much information can slow decision making.
- Growing storage in silos makes it difficult to share critical patient data across different systems, which can affect care. Storage and IT costs are rising dramatically.
- Caregivers lack resources to integrate technologies due to being overloaded by growing patient demands.
Dell aims to address these challenges by optimizing healthcare storage architectures. Dell's portfolio includes high performance
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: Which is Right for Healthcare?Health Catalyst
The data lake style of a data warehouse architecture is a flexible alternative to a traditional data warehouse. It allows for unstructured data. When a warehousing approach requires that the data be in a structured format, there are constraints on the analyses that can be performed because not all of the data can be structured early. The data lake concept is very similar to our Late-Binding approach in that data lakes are our source marts. We increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these through: 1. Metadata, 2. Source Mart Designer, and 3. Subject Area Mart Designer.
Seven Ways DOS™ Simplifies the Complexities of Healthcare ITHealth Catalyst
Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) is a revolutionary architecture that addresses the digital and data problems confronting healthcare now and in the future. It is an analytics galaxy that encompasses data platforms, machine learning, analytics applications, and the fabric to stitch all these components together.
DOS addresses these seven critical areas of healthcare IT:
Healthcare data management and acquisition
Integrating data in mergers and acquisitions
Enabling a personal health record
Scaling existing, homegrown data warehouses
Ingesting the human health data ecosystem
Providers becoming payers
Extending the life and current value of EHR investments
This white paper illustrates these healthcare system needs detail and explains the attributes of DOS. Read how DOS is the right technology for tackling healthcare’s big issues, including big data, physician burnout, rising healthcare expenses, and the productivity backfire created by other healthcare technologies.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
This document discusses using big data analytics for operational and clinical decision support in healthcare. It outlines how analytics can help optimize decisions for patients, administrators, providers and policy makers by analyzing structured and unstructured data from various sources. The document proposes creating an operational decision support center and clinical decision support center to help coordinate patient care, anticipate needs, detect bottlenecks and support clinical decisions with data-driven insights. The goal is to move from rule-based systems to more precise, predictive and transparent decision making approaches.
Big data is impacting the healthcare industry by enhancing efficiency, increasing productivity, and helping anticipate potential issues. The document outlines how big data plays a role in healthcare through benefits like detecting illnesses early, customized treatment, and reducing waste. It also discusses challenges like privacy concerns, fragmented data from different sources, and ensuring data integrity when sharing information.
Microsoft: A Waking Giant In Healthcare Analytics and Big DataHealth Catalyst
In 2005, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare embarked upon a strategic Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) initiative with the Microsoft technology platform as the foundation. Dale Sanders was CIO at Northwestern and led the development of Northwestern’s Microsoft-based EDW. At that time, Microsoft as an EDW platform was not en vogue and there were many who doubted the success of the Northwestern project. While other organizations were spending millions of dollars and years developing EDW’s and analytics on other platforms, Northwestern achieved great and rapid value at a fraction of the cost of the more typical technology platforms. Now, there are more healthcare data warehouses built around Microsoft products than any other vendor. The risky bet on Microsoft in 2005 paid off.
Ten years ago, critics didn’t believe that Microsoft could scale in the second generation of relational data warehouses, but they did. More recently, many of these same pundits have criticized Microsoft for missing the technology wave du jour in cloud offerings, mobile technology, and big data. But, once again, Microsoft has been quietly reengineering its culture and products, and as a result, they now offer the best value and most visionary platform for cloud services, big data, and analytics in healthcare.
In this context, Dale will talk about:
His up and down journey with Microsoft as an Air Force and healthcare CIO, and why he is now more bullish on Microsoft like never before
A quick review of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model and Closed Loop Analytics in healthcare, and how Microsoft products relate to both
The rise of highly specialized, cloud-based analytic services and their value to healthcare organizations’ analytics strategies
Microsoft’s transformation from a closed-system, desktop PC company to an open-system consumer and business infrastructure company
The current transition period of enterprise data warehouses between the decline of relational databases and the rise of non-relational databases, and the new Microsoft products, notably Azure and the Analytic Platform System (APS), that bridge the transition of skills and technology while still integrating with core products like Office, Active Directory, and System Center
Microsoft’s strategy with its PowerX product line, and geospatial analysis and machine learning visualization tools
This webinar will focus on the technical and practical aspects of creating and deploying predictive analytics. We have seen an emerging need for predictive analytics across clinical, operational, and financial domains. One pitfall we’ve seen with predictive analytics is that while many people with access to free tools can develop predictive models, many organizations fail to provide a sufficient infrastructure in which the models are deployed in a consistent, reliable way and truly embedded into the analytics environment. We will survey techniques that are used to get better predictions at scale. This webinar won’t be an intense mathematical treatment of the latest predictive algorithms, but will rather be a guide for organizations that want to embed predictive analytics into their technical and operational workflows.
Topics will include:
Reducing the time it takes to develop a model
Automating model training and retraining
Feature engineering
Deploying the model in the analytics environment
Deploying the model in the clinical environment
This document discusses how Hadoop can enable healthcare by providing a modern data platform. Currently, electronic medical records and data warehouses have limitations in processing high volumes of real-time data and performing advanced analytics. A Hadoop-based big data platform can ingest all healthcare data in its native format and in real time. This allows for use cases like early detection of sepsis, predicting readmissions, and advanced research. The architecture is designed to be scalable, use open source tools, and store all healthcare data for advanced analytics to improve patient care and outcomes.
Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are leveraging Big Data technology to capture data in order to get a better insight into patient centric and research centric information. Combining these two requires extreme computing power. We will discuss use cases where Big Data technology was instrumental ; Merging Genomic and Clinical Data in order to advance personalized Medicine
The document discusses the differential diagnosis of chest pain. It notes that the chest x-ray and history are the most important tests to evaluate non-cardiac chest pain. The history requires a meticulous examination of all relevant details. Many life-threatening and non-life threatening potential causes of chest pain are outlined, including cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, psychiatric, and neurological conditions. Thoracic outlet syndromes are given a detailed differential diagnosis. The evaluation of chest pain is emphasized to be complex, requiring a defined diagnosis beyond simply ruling out heart attack.
Powerpoint Presentation - exported from Keynote Mac presentation. Introduction to Cardiac Point of Care U/S. Talk was meant for Emergency Medicine Residents PG1-3 level. Modest tweaks of font and spacing required prior to your own use. Associated PDF file in original Keynote format.
This document discusses acute coronary syndrome (ACS). It describes the pathophysiology of plaque rupture and thrombosis in ACS. It outlines risk factors for high-risk ACS features and discusses tools for risk stratification including ECG findings, cardiac biomarkers like troponin and CRP, and clinical scoring systems. It also reviews the diagnostic performance and prognostic value of troponin for detecting myocardial infarction.
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1) This document provides guidance on evaluating and treating shock in patients. It discusses the different types of shock (hypovolemic, cardiogenic, distributive), their causes, signs, and treatments.
2) The initial approach involves taking a thorough history, performing a full physical exam, and obtaining basic lab tests to help identify the type and cause of shock.
3) Mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) and central venous pressure (CVP) measurements can help guide fluid resuscitation and vasopressor use depending on whether the values are low or normal. Fluid challenges are recommended initially
This document discusses therapeutic hypothermia for patients who experience cardiac arrest. Lowering a patient's core body temperature to 32-34°C for 12-24 hours after resuscitation can improve outcomes by reducing neurological injury from reperfusion. Clinical studies show increased survival rates and neurological function for patients who receive therapeutic hypothermia. The document reviews different methods for inducing and maintaining therapeutic hypothermia, as well as barriers to implementing these protocols more widely. It advocates for the establishment of specialized cardiac arrest centers to optimize post-cardiac arrest care.
This document discusses chronotropic incompetence, which is the heart's inability to regulate its rate appropriately in response to physiological stress. It defines chronotropic incompetence and notes that it is a class I indication for pacemaker implantation. The prevalence of chronotropic incompetence in the pacemaker population is approximately 42%. Chronotropic incompetence is progressive over time and worsens cardiac output during exercise. An ideal sensor for rate-responsive pacing would be reliable, consistent, durable, efficient, easily implanted, and physiologically appropriate. Minute ventilation and accelerometer sensors are discussed as options for rate-responsive pacing and restoring chronotropic competence.
1) Pulmonary embolism is the third most common cause of death and second most common cause of unexpected death, with an incidence of 355,000 cases per year and 240,000 deaths per year in the US.
2) Clinical presentation can include chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, syncope, and hemoptysis. Diagnosis is often missed due to non-specific symptoms.
3) Diagnostic tests include D-dimer, V/Q scan, CT pulmonary angiogram, pulmonary angiogram, and echocardiogram. Treatment depends on severity and includes anticoagulation, thrombolysis, catheter-directed thrombolysis, surgical embolect
This document discusses challenges and solutions related to implementing medical IT systems. It begins with an overview of idealized vs. real-world medical IT systems from different perspectives. It then presents a taxonomy of common implementation barriers including time, expertise, access, resources, and support. Potential solutions are proposed such as total commitment from hospital management, pre-deployment buy-in from key physicians, process re-engineering, intensive help desk support, and senior management accountability.
The document discusses practical thanatology and perspectives on death and dying. It addresses [1] how humans like Gilgamesh foolishly chase immortality and fail to appreciate life, [2] the differences between sudden and expected death, [3] the stages of dying and bereavement, and [4] the importance of facilitative communication when supporting the dying and their families. The document emphasizes accepting mortality, treasuring the present, and providing compassionate support through the end of life process.
Analyzing Big Data in Medicine with Virtual Research Environments and Microse...Ola Spjuth
This document discusses analyzing big data in medicine using virtual research environments and microservices. It notes the vast amount of data being generated and challenges of data management, analysis and scaling. The European Open Science Cloud aims to enable access to shared scientific data across borders. Contemporary analysis uses high-performance computing but has limitations. Cloud computing, virtual machines, containers and microservices can help address these challenges by providing on-demand resources and decomposing functionality into independent services. The PhenoMeNal project is building a standardized e-infrastructure using these approaches to enable users to access tools and data. This improves sustainability, reliability, scalability and enables agile development and science.
This document summarizes a presentation on new sources of big data for precision medicine. It discusses how new data sources like genomics, the human microbiome, epigenomics, and the exposome are generating large amounts of data. It then covers the evolution of precision medicine from concepts like personalized medicine and how strategic initiatives in the UK and US are supporting precision medicine research through funding programs and projects like the Cancer Genome Atlas, eMERGE, and exposome studies. The presentation raises the question of whether we are ready for precision medicine given these new data sources and research efforts.
The document discusses various multiple choice questions (MCQs) related to medical topics like shock, trauma, and diabetes.
Some key points summarized:
- Pulsus paradoxus is seen in conditions with increased pulmonary intravascular volume during inspiration, leading to an abnormally reduced systolic blood pressure.
- Neurogenic shock is characterized by hypotension and bradycardia, caused by impairment of the descending sympathetic pathway.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis is a medical emergency caused by lack of insulin that can lead to profound dehydration and shock if left untreated.
- Hypoglycemia is most common in type 1 diabetes but can also be caused by sulfonylureas
This document lists the names of several mobile applications and references for emergency medicine professionals, including applications for ultrasound reference, pediatric emergency medicine, eye emergencies, antibiotics guidelines, medical calculators, and a general emergency medicine reference. It provides a listing of digital resources available for emergency physicians and clinicians.
Precision Medicine is now a funded NIH initiative and an organic movement in the clinic and at the research institute. Based on work with Genomics England, multiple large pharmaceutical firms, and research hospitals, attendees will learn about the best practices for epidemiology, signal detection, research, and the clinical diagnostics associated with Precision Medicine, including the development of high-scale bio-repositories that link traditional patient data with genomic information. Come hear about how leadership, collaboration, consent, and compute can lead to success or failure in your Precision Medicine initiative, and how to bring your stakeholders together for an aligned mission response.
ACLS 2015 Updates - The Malaysian PerspectiveChew Keng Sheng
This set of slide was presented during the Kelantan Resuscitation Update 22 Nov 2015 in accordance to the latest ACLS/ILCOR 2015 Guidelines. However, I have emphasized on certain important aspects relevant within the Malaysian context. Nonetheless, in general, there are no major changes for this year 2015
The document provides guidance on principles of trauma care. It discusses the primary and secondary surveys that should be conducted to assess and treat trauma patients. The primary survey involves assessing the patient's airway, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure to identify life-threatening injuries. This includes steps like ensuring an open airway, checking for adequate breathing, feeling for pulses, and conducting a brief neurological exam. The secondary survey involves a more thorough head-to-toe examination to identify and treat all injuries, as well as taking a medical history. Trauma scoring systems are also described to help determine if a patient requires transfer to a higher level trauma center.
This document provides an introductory tutorial on big data in medicine and healthcare. It defines big data as large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that can be mined for information, often referring to sizes in petabytes and exabytes. The key dimensions of big data are described as volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. Hadoop is presented as an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of commodity servers. Examples of using Hadoop and MapReduce for medical applications like predictive modeling, genomic research, and data integration are also provided.
This document discusses issues, opportunities, and challenges related to big data. It provides an overview of big data characteristics like volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. It also describes Hadoop and HDFS for distributed storage and processing of big data. The document outlines issues in big data like storage, management, and processing challenges due to scale. Opportunities in big data analytics are also presented. Finally, challenges like heterogeneity, scale, timeliness, and ownership are discussed along with approaches like Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and Presto for tackling big data problems.
This document discusses big data, Hadoop, data science, and whether Hadoop is necessary for data science. It defines big data and its 3 V's, describes Hadoop as a framework for processing large datasets across many nodes, discusses how Hadoop uses HDFS for storage and MapReduce for distributed computation, and explains why Hadoop is useful for data science tasks like exploring large datasets, data preparation, and accelerating data-driven innovation.
The document provides an introduction to big data and Hadoop. It describes the concepts of big data, including the four V's of big data: volume, variety, velocity and veracity. It then explains Hadoop and how it addresses big data challenges through its core components. Finally, it describes the various components that make up the Hadoop ecosystem, such as HDFS, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Spark, MapReduce, Pig and Hive. The key takeaways are that the reader will now be able to describe big data concepts, explain how Hadoop addresses big data challenges, and describe the components of the Hadoop ecosystem.
BioHDF is a project to develop open binary file formats and software tools for managing large-scale genomic data from next-generation DNA sequencing. The project aims to address challenges related to the proliferation of file formats, redundancy of data, and computational overhead by building on the HDF5 data model and libraries. BioHDF will develop models and applications to support primary and secondary data analysis from sequencing, with collaborations planned with software developers and research groups.
eScience: A Transformed Scientific MethodDuncan Hull
The document discusses the concept of eScience, which involves synthesizing information technology and science. It explains how science is becoming more data-driven and computational, requiring new tools to manage large amounts of data. It recommends that organizations foster the development of tools to help with data capture, analysis, publication, and access across various scientific disciplines.
The document discusses how empowering transformational science through open data access, optimized data formats, and open-source tools. It argues that traditional methods of accessing large datasets can be inefficient, with 80% of time spent on data preparation and only 10% on analysis. New approaches using analytics optimized data stores (AODS) like Zarr, and tools like Xarray and Dask, allow accessing large datasets with a single line of code and performing analyses within minutes by leveraging lazy loading and parallel computing. This represents a paradigm shift from traditional project timelines that can reduce barriers to science and increase reproducibility, empowering more researchers to efficiently analyze data and focus on scientific questions.
This presentation introduces big data and data mining. Big data refers to extremely large data sets that cannot be processed by traditional software. Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets using machine learning, statistics, and database systems. The presentation discusses key facts about the growth of data, examples of big data sources like Facebook and Google, challenges of big data like hardware limitations, and solutions like parallel computing. Common big data mining tools are also introduced, including Hadoop, Apache S4, and Storm. Applications of big data and data mining are highlighted in various domains like healthcare, public sector, and biology.
This document provides an overview of big data and how to start a career working with big data. It discusses the growth of data from various sources and challenges of dealing with large, unstructured data. Common data types and measurement units are defined. Hadoop is introduced as an open-source framework for storing and processing big data across clusters of computers. Key components of Hadoop's ecosystem are explained, including HDFS for storage, MapReduce/Spark for processing, and Hive/Impala for querying. Examples are given of how companies like Walmart and UPS use big data analytics to improve business decisions. Career opportunities and typical salaries in big data are also mentioned.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by the increasing volume and complexity of biological data. It outlines four main areas: 1) Developing methods to efficiently store, access, and analyze large datasets; 2) Broadening our understanding of gene function beyond a small number of well-studied genes; 3) Accelerating research through improved sharing of data, results, and methods; and 4) Leveraging exploratory analysis of integrated datasets to generate new insights. The author advocates for lossy data compression, streaming analysis, preprint sharing, improved metadata collection, and incentivizing open data practices.
Big Data in Healthcare Made Simple Where It Stands Today and Where .pdfannamalaiagencies
Big Data in Healthcare Made Simple: Where It Stands Today and Where It’s Going
This piece will tackle such questions head-on. It’s important to separate the reality from the hype
and clearly describe the place of big data in healthcare today, along with the role it will play in
the future.
Big Data in Healthcare Today
A number of use cases in healthcare are well suited for a big data solution. Some academic- or
research-focused healthcare institutions are either experimenting with big data or using it in
advanced research projects. Those institutions draw upon data scientists, statisticians, graduate
students, and the like to wrangle the complexities of big data. In the following sections, we’ll
address some of those complexities and what’s being done to simplify big data and make it more
accessible.
A Brief History of Big Data in Healthcare
In 2001, Doug Laney, now at Gartner, coined the term “the 3 V’s” to define big data–Volume,
Velocity, and Variety. Other analysts have argued that this is too simplistic, and there are more
things to think about when defining big data. They suggest more V’s such as Variability and
Veracity, and even a C for Complexity. We’ll stick with the simpler 3 V’s definition for this
piece.
In healthcare, we do have large volumes of data coming in. EMRs alone collect huge amounts of
data. Most of that data iscollected for recreational purposes according to Brent James of
Intermountain Healthcare. But neither the volume nor the velocity of data in healthcare is truly
high enough to require big data today. Our work with health systems shows that only a small
fraction of the tables in an EMR database (perhaps 400 to 600 tables out of 1000s) are relevant to
the current practice of medicine and its corresponding analytics use cases. So, the vast majority
of the data collection in healthcare today could be considered recreational. Although that data
may have value down the road as the number of use cases expands, there aren’t many real use
cases for much of that data today.
There is certainly variety in the data, but most systems collect very similar data objects with an
occasional tweak to the model. That said, new use cases supporting genomics will certainly
require a big data approach.
Health Systems Without Big Data
Most health systems can do plenty today without big data, including meeting most of their
analytics and reporting needs. We haven’t even come close to stretching the limits of what
healthcare analytics can accomplish with traditional relational databases—and using these
databases effectively is a more valuable focus than worrying about big data.
Currently, the majority of healthcare institutions are swamped with some very pedestrian
problems such as regulatory reporting and operational dashboards. Most just need the proverbial
“air and water” right now, but once basic needs are met and some of the initial advanced
applications are in place, new use cases will arrive (e.g. wearable medical devices and senso.
Thesis blending big data and cloud -epilepsy global data research and inform...Anup Singh
This document provides an overview and abstract for a thesis project aimed at building an epilepsy data research and information system leveraging big data and cloud computing. The system would create a global federated database of medical information and services to help doctors and neurosurgeons treat epilepsy patients worldwide. It would provide access to large datasets on patients to help with research and treatment decisions. The project would use technologies like Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, MapReduce running on cloud platforms to store and analyze the large amounts of structured and unstructured epilepsy data from various sources.
This document discusses data mining with big data. It defines big data and data mining. Big data is characterized by its volume, variety, and velocity. The amount of data in the world is growing exponentially with 2.5 quintillion bytes created daily. The proposed system would use distributed parallel computing with Hadoop to handle large volumes of varied data types. It would provide a platform to process data across dimensions and summarize results while addressing challenges such as data location, privacy, and hardware resources.
The document discusses the need for a new open source database management system called SciDB to address the challenges of storing and analyzing extremely large scientific datasets. SciDB is being designed to handle petabyte-scale multidimensional array data with native support for features important to science like provenance tracking, uncertainty handling, and integration with statistical tools. An international partnership involving scientists, database experts, and a nonprofit company is developing SciDB with initial funding and use cases coming from astronomy, industry, genomics and other domains.
The document provides an introduction to big data, including definitions and characteristics. It discusses how big data can be described by its volume, variety, and velocity. It notes that big data is large and complex data that is difficult to process using traditional data management tools. Common sources of big data include social media, sensors, and scientific instruments. Challenges in big data include capturing, storing, analyzing, and visualizing large and diverse datasets that are generated quickly. Distributed file systems and technologies like Hadoop are well-suited for processing big data.
This document provides an overview of big data, including its components of variety, volume, and velocity. It discusses frameworks for managing big data like Hadoop and HPCC, describing how Hadoop uses HDFS for storage and MapReduce for processing, while HPCC uses its own data refinery and delivery engine. Examples are given of big data sources and applications. Privacy and security issues are also addressed.
The document provides an introduction to big data and data mining. It defines big data as massive volumes of structured and unstructured data that are difficult to process using traditional techniques. Data mining is described as finding new and useful information within large amounts of data. The document then discusses characteristics of big data like volume, variety and velocity. It also outlines challenges of big data like privacy and hardware resources. Finally, it presents tools for big data mining and analysis like Hadoop, Apache S4 and Mahout.
A Review Paper on Big Data and Hadoop for Data Scienceijtsrd
Big data is a collection of large datasets that cannot be processed using traditional computing techniques. It is not a single technique or a tool, rather it has become a complete subject, which involves various tools, technqiues and frameworks. Hadoop is an open source framework that allows to store and process big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Mr. Ketan Bagade | Mrs. Anjali Gharat | Mrs. Helina Tandel "A Review Paper on Big Data and Hadoop for Data Science" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29816.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/data-miining/29816/a-review-paper-on-big-data-and-hadoop-for-data-science/mr-ketan-bagade
this presentation describes the company from where I did my summer training and what is bigdata why we use big data, big data challenges, the issue in big data, the solution of big data issues, hadoop, docker , Ansible etc.
This document provides an outline on eating disorders that includes:
- A brief history noting the first descriptions of anorexia nervosa in 1873.
- Definitions of key terms like body mass index and diagnostic criteria for conditions like anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
- Statistics on the epidemiology, gender differences, and cultural factors related to eating disorders.
- Discussions of etiology, risk factors, physical and psychological symptoms, common comorbidities, course and burden of illness, treatment approaches, and prevention strategies.
This document provides information on bipolar disorder, including its subtypes, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, clinical presentation, etiology and risk factors, comorbidity, and treatment. It discusses bipolar disorder types I and II, as well as cyclothymic disorder. It outlines the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for mania, hypomania, and depression. It notes the prevalence of bipolar disorder in adults and youth, gender and age of onset differences, burden of illness, and course of the disorder. It covers etiology, risk factors, and high rates of comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders. It also discusses clinical presentations, differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment approaches including pharmacotherapy, sleep hygiene, psychosocial
EKG Patterns of SCD - Can't Miss EKG Patterns for Generalist & PsychiatristFrank Meissner
This document discusses several electrocardiogram patterns that can indicate risk of sudden cardiac death. It presents six case studies and the corresponding ECG patterns:
1) Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome seen in a 34-year-old with palpitations, shown by a short PR interval and delta wave.
2) Brugada syndrome in a 36-year-old with chest pain, shown by ST elevation in right precordial leads.
3) Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia in a 28-year-old with dizziness, shown by epsilon waves and T wave inversion.
4) Long QT syndrome in a 44-year-old with dizziness and
1. This case presentation discusses a 27-year-old Hispanic female who presented with syncope and anemia and was ultimately diagnosed with pulmonary embolism.
2. An echocardiogram revealed signs consistent with pulmonary embolism including right ventricular dysfunction, severe tricuspid regurgitation, and elevated pressures in the inferior vena cava.
3. A CT scan showed saddle emboli in the main pulmonary artery and clots throughout both lungs. Interventional procedures discussed for treating massive pulmonary embolism when thrombolysis fails include catheter-directed techniques like embolectomy and balloon angioplasty.
This document provides an overview of pediatric delirium, including its epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, and potential sequelae. Some key points:
- Pediatric delirium occurs in 20-30% of critically ill children and is underrecognized. It can be hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed in presentation.
- Diagnosis involves assessing for disturbances in attention, cognition, and awareness that fluctuate and are caused by medical conditions or treatments. Scales are used to aid diagnosis.
- Treatment of hyperactive delirium involves starting low doses of haloperidol or risperidone and monitoring for side effects, while hypoactive delirium has no established treatments.
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1. The document discusses two case studies of patients who experienced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which is a type of temporary heart muscle weakening or dysfunction brought on by severe emotional or physical stress.
2. The authors propose that abnormal adult attachment, as manifested through transitional objects like a cherished vehicle, is a risk factor for later developing Takotsubo cardiomyopathy if that transitional object is lost.
3. They present models showing how unresolved or complicated grief over past losses can lead to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy months or years later if a symbolic replacement for the loss is then damaged or taken away.
1. A 48-year-old female taking amitriptyline and fluoxetine for over 5 years presented with dizziness and was found to have Type 1 Brugada syndrome on her EKG.
2. Brugada syndrome is a rare cardiac condition caused by a genetic mutation that can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death, and certain drugs including amitriptyline are known to potentially induce Brugada syndrome.
3. While baseline EKGs are often normal in Brugada syndrome, serial monitoring is recommended for patients taking drugs known to induce it, as this case highlights the potential for late onset of changes when exposed long term to triggering medications.
This document discusses the importance of cultural competence in psychiatric care for children on the Texas-Mexico border. It describes two cases of young Hispanic females who experienced hallucinations and were treated by both local curanderos (faith healers) and psychiatrists. The treatment team took time to understand the families' cultural beliefs and integrate them into the treatment plans. It emphasizes that cultural competence is essential for physicians due to increasing diversity and the role of culture in shaping illness perceptions and treatments.
- A 24-year-old male college student overdosed on Coricidin cough and cold medicine ("Triple C's") to get high, resulting in grand mal seizures. He was intubated and treated with magnesium and bicarbonate for severe lactic acidosis and prolonged QTc interval.
- "Triple C's" or dextromethorphan (DXM) is a cough suppressant that is abused for its euphoric and dissociative effects but can cause seizures, cardiac issues like prolonged QTc, and death in high doses.
- The patient required intensive care for 7 days but survived after aggressive treatment of his lactic acidosis, seizures, and prolonged QTc
This document discusses the importance of obtaining a detailed sleep history in evaluating and managing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It presents two case studies to illustrate this point. The first case involves a veteran experiencing night terrors related to combat trauma memories as well as significant dissociative experiences during the day. The second case describes a veteran with delayed onset PTSD who is experiencing REM sleep behavior disorder and progressive memory problems, suggesting an underlying neurodegenerative process. The document argues that a thorough examination of a patient's sleep phenomena, rather than just noting the presence of nightmares, can provide crucial insights into their psychological presentation and lead to improved treatment.
This document provides guidance on the initial assessment and management of a patient with burns. It details the patient's history of a 39-year-old man who suffered scalding burns after losing cold water in the shower. The physical exam found burns covering 9%, 18%, 18%, 18%, 9%, and 1% of the patient's body surface area. Key priorities for burn treatment include airway, breathing, circulation, exposing the skin, and wound care. Initial labs and assessments should evaluate for potential complications like inhalation injuries. Fluid resuscitation is critical and guidelines are provided for calculating fluid volumes based on the patient's weight, burn percentage, and urine output goals. Airway management may require intubation depending on signs
This document discusses a 27-year-old male patient presenting with fever, renal failure, and hemorrhagic symptoms who is diagnosed with Korean hemorrhagic fever (KHF). KHF is caused by hantaviruses carried by rodents. It presents initially as fever and progresses through hypotensive, oliguric, and diuretic stages. While severe cases have high mortality, intravenous ribavirin treatment was shown to reduce mortality and complications in a Chinese clinical trial. KHF and related illnesses like nephropathia epidemica are occupational hazards for those exposed to infected rodents.
This document presents a case of a 41-year-old Kenyan male presenting with wheezing, cough, and orthopnea. On exam, he has elevated blood pressure, wheezing, increased jugular venous pressure, and an abnormal EKG. The document then reviews various tropical cardiac diseases including protein-calorie malnutrition, beriberi heart disease, idiopathic cardiomyopathy, tropical endomyocardial fibrosis, pericardial diseases, rheumatic fever, and various infectious myocardiopathic diseases that can present in tropical regions.
This document discusses a case of Schistosomiasis haematobium in a 25-year-old male from Kenya. Laboratory tests found eggs of S. haematobium in the patient's urine. The document then provides details on the life cycle, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of schistosomiasis. Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem worldwide, with certain areas of Africa and the Philippines having high infection rates. Praziquantel is the treatment of choice.
The patient is a native of Kenya who recently spent 9 months in Croatia and presents with progressively decreased vision in the left eye over 3 weeks. Exam finds eczematoid dermatitis and hypopigmentation of the legs with sclerosing keratitis of the left cornea. Labs show 90% eosinophilia. The document discusses onchocerciasis, caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus transmitted by blackflies in equatorial Africa and other regions. Clinical manifestations include skin lesions, subcutaneous nodules, and eye involvement that can lead to blindness. Diagnosis involves skin snip biopsy and treatment is diethylcarbamazine or ivermectin
- 34 year old male from Pakistan presents with fever, rigors, and sweats for 3 days after travel to Croatia 14 days prior. Physical exam is notable for fever of 102.7F but otherwise unremarkable.
- Malaria is endemic in parts of Pakistan, transmitted by several mosquito species. P. falciparum is increasing and causes the most severe disease.
- The patient likely has malaria acquired in Pakistan or Croatia, with P. falciparum or P. vivax being the most common causes. He will be treated with intravenous quinidine followed by oral therapy if parasites decrease sufficiently.
Visceral leishmaniasis is caused by the L. donovani parasite and transmitted through sandfly bites. It is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, South America, and around the Mediterranean. The patient is a 45-year-old male from Pakistan presenting with fever, weight loss, and wasting for 4-5 weeks. Laboratory findings show anemia, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia. Sodium stibogluconate is the first-line treatment, though amphotericin B or pentamidine may be used if initial treatment fails.
This document discusses the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain. It notes that the chest x-ray is an important initial test that can provide clues to life-threatening causes of chest pain other than coronary artery disease. A thorough history is also essential in evaluating stable patients with chest pain. The document then lists and describes various life-threatening and non-life-threatening potential causes of chest pain, as well as abnormalities that may be seen on electrocardiogram, chest x-ray, and lab tests in different conditions.
This document discusses various types of cardiomyopathies including dilated, restrictive, hypertrophic, and infectious cardiomyopathy. It provides details on specific cases including symptoms, diagnostic studies, treatment, and prognosis. Causes of cardiomyopathy discussed include viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, drugs, toxins, malnutrition, and genetic factors. Infectious etiologies like Coxsackie virus are among the most common causes. Diagnosis involves echocardiogram, biopsy, and identifying an infectious agent. Treatment focuses on the underlying cause and managing heart failure symptoms.
This document provides information on antiarrhythmic drug therapy, including:
1. It describes the classification of antiarrhythmic drugs based on their effects on cardiac conduction tissues and action potentials.
2. It outlines the electrophysiological effects of various antiarrhythmic drugs on different parts of the heart.
3. It lists the clinical indications and potential adverse reactions of common antiarrhythmic drugs like digoxin, quinidine, amiodarone, beta-blockers, and calcium channel blockers.
share - Lions, tigers, AI and health misinformation, oh my!.pptxTina Purnat
• Pitfalls and pivots needed to use AI effectively in public health
• Evidence-based strategies to address health misinformation effectively
• Building trust with communities online and offline
• Equipping health professionals to address questions, concerns and health misinformation
• Assessing risk and mitigating harm from adverse health narratives in communities, health workforce and health system
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Osteoporosis - Definition , Evaluation and Management .pdfJim Jacob Roy
Osteoporosis is an increasing cause of morbidity among the elderly.
In this document , a brief outline of osteoporosis is given , including the risk factors of osteoporosis fractures , the indications for testing bone mineral density and the management of osteoporosis
8 Surprising Reasons To Meditate 40 Minutes A Day That Can Change Your Life.pptxHolistified Wellness
We’re talking about Vedic Meditation, a form of meditation that has been around for at least 5,000 years. Back then, the people who lived in the Indus Valley, now known as India and Pakistan, practised meditation as a fundamental part of daily life. This knowledge that has given us yoga and Ayurveda, was known as Veda, hence the name Vedic. And though there are some written records, the practice has been passed down verbally from generation to generation.
Hiranandani Hospital in Powai, Mumbai, is a premier healthcare institution that has been serving the community with exceptional medical care since its establishment. As a part of the renowned Hiranandani Group, the hospital is committed to delivering world-class healthcare services across a wide range of specialties, including kidney transplantation. With its state-of-the-art facilities, advanced medical technology, and a team of highly skilled healthcare professionals, Hiranandani Hospital has earned a reputation as a trusted name in the healthcare industry. The hospital's patient-centric approach, coupled with its focus on innovation and excellence, ensures that patients receive the highest standard of care in a compassionate and supportive environment.
One health condition that is becoming more common day by day is diabetes.
According to research conducted by the National Family Health Survey of India, diabetic cases show a projection which might increase to 10.4% by 2030.
Does Over-Masturbation Contribute to Chronic Prostatitis.pptxwalterHu5
In some case, your chronic prostatitis may be related to over-masturbation. Generally, natural medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill can help mee get a cure.
Local Advanced Lung Cancer: Artificial Intelligence, Synergetics, Complex Sys...Oleg Kshivets
Overall life span (LS) was 1671.7±1721.6 days and cumulative 5YS reached 62.4%, 10 years – 50.4%, 20 years – 44.6%. 94 LCP lived more than 5 years without cancer (LS=2958.6±1723.6 days), 22 – more than 10 years (LS=5571±1841.8 days). 67 LCP died because of LC (LS=471.9±344 days). AT significantly improved 5YS (68% vs. 53.7%) (P=0.028 by log-rank test). Cox modeling displayed that 5YS of LCP significantly depended on: N0-N12, T3-4, blood cell circuit, cell ratio factors (ratio between cancer cells-CC and blood cells subpopulations), LC cell dynamics, recalcification time, heparin tolerance, prothrombin index, protein, AT, procedure type (P=0.000-0.031). Neural networks, genetic algorithm selection and bootstrap simulation revealed relationships between 5YS and N0-12 (rank=1), thrombocytes/CC (rank=2), segmented neutrophils/CC (3), eosinophils/CC (4), erythrocytes/CC (5), healthy cells/CC (6), lymphocytes/CC (7), stick neutrophils/CC (8), leucocytes/CC (9), monocytes/CC (10). Correct prediction of 5YS was 100% by neural networks computing (error=0.000; area under ROC curve=1.0).
These lecture slides, by Dr Sidra Arshad, offer a quick overview of the physiological basis of a normal electrocardiogram.
Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
6. Describe the flow of current around the heart during the cardiac cycle
7. Discuss the placement and polarity of the leads of electrocardiograph
8. Describe the normal electrocardiograms recorded from the limb leads and explain the physiological basis of the different records that are obtained
9. Define mean electrical vector (axis) of the heart and give the normal range
10. Define the mean QRS vector
11. Describe the axes of leads (hexagonal reference system)
12. Comprehend the vectorial analysis of the normal ECG
13. Determine the mean electrical axis of the ventricular QRS and appreciate the mean axis deviation
14. Explain the concepts of current of injury, J point, and their significance
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
Our backs are like superheroes, holding us up and helping us move around. But sometimes, even superheroes can get hurt. That’s where slip discs come in.
Muktapishti is a traditional Ayurvedic preparation made from Shoditha Mukta (Purified Pearl), is believed to help regulate thyroid function and reduce symptoms of hyperthyroidism due to its cooling and balancing properties. Clinical evidence on its efficacy remains limited, necessitating further research to validate its therapeutic benefits.
1. “Big Data”
For
Medicine & Health Care -
An Introductory Tutorial
Frank W Meissner, MD, RDMS, RDCS
FACP, FACC, FCCP, FASNC, CPHIMS, CCDS
Diplomate- Subspecialty Board of Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
Diplomate - Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Certified Professional Health Information and Management Systems
Diplomate- Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Diseases
Diplomate - Subspecialty Board of Critical Care Medicine
Diplomate - Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology
Diplomate - American Board of Forensic Medicine
Diplomate- American Board of Internal Medicine
Diplomate - National Board of Echocardiography
Certified Cardiac Device Specialist - Physician
2. Big Data - Definition
(With Apologies to Douglas Adams)
Big Data -
You just won't believe how vastly,
hugely,
mind-bogglingly big it is.”
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3. Seriously,
Big Data A Real Definition
Big data is an evolving term that describes any
voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and
unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for
information
Although big data doesn't refer to any specific quantity,
the term is often used when speaking about petabytes
(PB) and exabytes (EB) of data
1 PB = 1000000000000000B = 1015 bytes = 1000 terabytes
1 EB = 10006 bytes = 1018 bytes = 1000000000000000000 B = 1000
petabytes = 1 million terabytes = 1 billion gigabytes
5. ‘Big Data’ - An Operational Definition
Big Data is
High Volume
High Speed
High Variety
High Veracity
THE Data demands new types and forms of info processing to
support decision support, insight discovery, and process
optimization
6. A Proto-Typical Big Data Project
(With More Apologies to Douglas Adams)
“O Deep Thought computer," he said,
"the task we have designed you to perform is this.
We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
"Life!" urged Fook.
"The Universe!" said Lunkwill.
"Everything!" they said in chorus.
Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection.
"Tricky," he said finally.
"But can you do it?"
Again, a significant pause.
"Yes," said Deep Thought, "I can do it."
"There is an answer?" said Fook with breathless excitement.
"Yes," said Deep Thought. "Life, the Universe, and Everything.
There is an answer. But, I'll have to think about it."
8. Data Validity/Veracity
The 4th Dimension of Big Data
Raw data may not be valid
May be incomplete (missing attributes or values)
May be ‘noisy’ (contains outliers or errors)
May be inconsistent (Invalid data, e.g., state/zip code mismatch )
9. Data Variety
Aggregating structured and unstructured data
in preparation for data analysis
Nontrivial & complex task
As in all Informatics efforts standards for data
exchange are essential & vital
10. Data Velocity
Salient Issue #1 - How often to sample your
data
Salient Issue #2 - How much can you afford to
pay for data sampling
Answers to #1 & #2 define data velocity
11. Data Volume
Not just the magnitude of storage
Wide variety of data also essential driver for
the ‘Big’ in Big Data
So Volume & Variety inexorably intertwined
In fact Data Volume is directly proportional to
data Variety & Velocity, i.e., specify Variety of
data sources & Velocity of data streams =>
Data Volume Requirements
12. By 2015 Average Hospital
Generates 2/3 Petra-byte Patient Data Per Year
14. Knowledge Discovery
Data Warehouse vs Big Data
Data Warehouse
Predefined & Structured Data
Non-operational relational data-base
On Line Analytical Processing of Data
Conventional SQL Query Tools
Exploratory Statistical Analysis
Data Visualization Techniques
K-nearest neighbor analysis
Decision Trees & Association Rules
Construction of Genetic Algorithms & Neural Network
16. Knowledge Discovery
Data Warehouse vs Big Data
Big Data Approach
Undefined & UnStructured Data
Non relational data-bases via Hadoop Distributed File
System
Massively Distributed Data Processing VIA Hadoop
(open-source Java-based programming framework
for processing large datasets in a distributed
computing environment) (Currently version 0.23)
Economical - traditional data storage $5 per
gigabyte - Hadoop storage $0.25 per gigabyte
17. Other Open Source Tools
Avro - data serialization system
Cassandra - scalable multi-master database (critical design feature no single
points of failure)
Chukwa - data collection system for managing large distributed systems
Hbase - scalable distributed database supporting structured data storage of large
tables
Hive - data warehouse infrastructure providing data summarization & ad hoc
query capacities
Mahout - scalable machine learning & data mining library
PIG - high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel
computation
ZooKeeper - high performance coordination service for distributed applications
23. Hadoop Distributed
Database Model
Database “Job”
Job Divided into Tasks
Map-Reduce Computing Model
Every Task either a Map
or
Reduce
24. Hadoop Computing Framework
Two conceptual layers
Hadoop Distributed File System
File broken into definable blocks
Stored on minimum of 3 servers for fault tolerance
Execution engine (MapReduce)
Reduces file requests into smaller requests
Optimizes scalable use of CPU resources
25. A Simple Example: Word Count
Count Each Occurrence of a Single Word in a Dataset
26. A More Complex Task Join Databases
The network functions here like any peer-peer distributed file sharing
system such as that seen with the bit- torrent protocol
28. Hadoop Cluster
Hadoop File System (HDFS) building block of the computing cluster
HDFS breaks incoming files into blocks and stores with triple
redundancy across the network
Computation on the block occurs at the storage node
The Well Known SETI@home project serves as easily
understandable example of this computing model
29. File Characteristics
‘Write Once’ files - original input data not modified -
triple redundantly stored
Input data streamed into HDFS - processed by
MapReduce - any results stored back in HDFS
Obviously HDFS not general purpose file system
31. MapReduce
Programming Model Enabling Massive Distributed Parallel Computations
Originally proprietary Google Technology
Map() procedure performs filtering and sorting
Reduce() procedure performs summary operation
Model was inspired but are not strictly analogous to the functional
programming map & reduce functions
The power of the model lays within the multi-threading capability that is
it’s essential design feature
Some have criticized the problem set approachable by this technique
32. Data Architecture Designs
Hadoop
(HDFS)
Hadoop
File System
data storage
component of
open source
Apache Hadoop
Project
Stores any type of data - structured, semi-structured,
& unstructured,
e.g., email, social data, XML data, videos, audio files, photos, GPS, satellite images,
sensor data, spreadsheets, web log data, mobile data, RFID tags, pdf docs
A Massively
Distributed
File
System
Optimized
for Parallel
Processing
33. Data Architecture Designs
Minimally intrusive
addition of
Hadoop
to enterprise
architecture
Data
Staging
Platform
Employing data
processing
power of Hadoop
with structured
data
Process
Data
34. Data Architecture Designs
Processing
Structured &
Unstructured
Data
Process
Data
Global Archiving
of all Data
Total
Global
Data
Storage
35. Data Architecture Designs
Processing
Structured &
Unstructured
Data Access via
EDW
Processing
Structured &
Unstructured
Data Access via
Hadoop
Preserving
The
Classical
Data
Model
Embracing
The
Future Data
Model
36. High Yield Areas 4 Use
Pharmacological Research
Genomic and Genetic Research
Psychiatry / Behavorial Health
Novel Sensors & Sensor Analysis Algorithms
Epidemiological Research
Much Talked About - Little Concrete
Actionable Effects
37. Conclusion
“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
Dwight D Eisenhower
“Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been before.”
Gerald Ford
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
38. Random Smattering of Articles
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Editor's Notes
This talk will discuss basic concepts to allow understanding of the basic features of ‘big data’ and its analysis.
According to the Author Douglas Adams, Big Data is vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big. Of course the sophisticated member of my audience will recognize that Adams was referring to the Universe itself in this quote, not too that subset of the universe called ‘Big Data.’
This is a more conventional definition of Big Data. However, it doesn’t alter one witt, the mind-boggling characteristic of Big Data contained in the previous slides definition.
This slide represents the most common data streams independent of knowledge domain that are incorporated into a ‘Big Data’ project.
This is the conventional and most commonly articulated ‘definition’ of Big Data.
The central story idea in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy revolves around the earth as the universes most advanced computation device designed by trans-dimensional beings to answer the Big Data Query noted above. Current plans and expectations for Big Data, now early in its hype-cycle seem only slightly less ambitious than answering the ultimate question.
This illustration envisions Big Data as a data tsunami that feeds upon itself in an every expanding cycle of every greater velocities, varieties and quantities of data.
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”
While there is no 5th dimension to Big Data- it’s now classical 3-dimensional representation is often times augmented with the superposition of a 4th Dimension, a dimension to those of us interested in applying Big Data analytic products to the scientific practice of medicine, the most important of all data dimensions, data validity/veracity. As noted in this slide, raw data can be incomplete in a multitude of ways.
Certainly the most exciting and potentially the most important dimension in the Big Data Tsunami is the free form mixture of structured and unstructured data elements.
The Grandest unrealized challenge within the formal Grand Challenges of Medical Informatics ( D F Sittig. Grand challenges in medical informatics?J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1994 Sep-Oct; 1(5): 412–413.) has been its struggle to deal with the stubborn insistence of medical practitioners to prefer the use of unstructured and often times idiosyncratic formulations of diagnostic findings, hypotheses, diagnoses, and case summations.
The full flighted pursuit of a unified controlled medical vocabulary which has obsessed the field literally since its inception seems doomed given the expanding and ever accelerating volume of new knowledge and biomedical concepts discovered every calendar year.
Thus an analytical methodology able to efficiently deal with unstructured but relevant and germane data seems to make the unified controlled medical vocabulary grand challenge if not irrelevant at least theoretically manageable.
The third line in this slide emphasizes that unlike the futile and hopeless dream that one can formally structure all clinical data input, all that is required for a ‘Big Data’ analysis is that the interface for data exchange is well formulated and has a relevant and pre-agreed data standard.
Conceptually the difference can be visualized by the analogy with a Fax Machine. Rather than trying to specify all possible Fax transmission messages by type with a unified nomenclature, all that is required is that Fax transmission messages conform to a unified interface standard so that (A)Fax_machine can exchange text data of any conceptual type with (B)Fax_machine, without pre-knowledge of what type of content is being exchanged.
This slide emphasizes that articulation and specification of sampling frequency coupled with an accurate estimate of the costs associated with data sampling and storage are critical planning factors prior to developing and implementing a ‘Big Data’ project.
As such in Project Management terms specification of data velocity is in essence determining the scope of your project.
This slide emphasizes that while Data Volume is conceptualized as an independent element of the Data Tsunami, in fact Data Volume appears to be a linear function of the other two dimensions, i.e., if one can accurately specify the source of the data streams while simultaneously specifying the velocity of those data streams than the data volume requirements for the project are uniquely and deterministically defined.
It has been estimated that by next year, the average hospital in the US while generate a total of 2/3 Petra-byte of patient data of all types (predominately video data) emphasizing the necessity for deployment of ‘Big Data’ tools and techniques in taming the data tsunami that is threatening to wash away the foundations of US Healthcare.
Just as there are Grand Challenges for the field of medical informatics, there remain predictable challenges for ‘Big Data.’
The elephant in the room here seems to me to be the potential for Privacy Violation and compromise of HIPAA mandated privacy laws and regulations as well as the bedrock ethical principle that patient-provider confidentiality is central to the medial encounter and is preserved and safe-guarded.
In contradistinction to these legal and ethical mandates has to be our understanding that for the average layman their direct knowledge of ‘Big Data’ programs will probably be limited to those highly and recently publicized NSA programs such as Stellarwind and PRISM.
As such, ‘Big Data’ programs within the medical domain have to be meticulous & proactive in defining and describing their safeguards so that data accumulation/manipulation/aggregation can occur at the same time that privacy and anonymity are guaranteed.
This slide details the classical data warehouse approach to knowledge discovery.
This flow diagram taken from my own paper on knowledge discovery via use of the data warehouse (Bothner U, Meissner FW. Wissen aus medizinischen Datenbanken nutzen. Dt Arztebl 1998;95: A-1336-1338(Heft 20].
In many ways the exploration of ‘Big Data’ is identical in terms of the analytical tools involved in the analysis of the data set. Specifically, all the on line analytical tools mentioned in the previous slide have been used for the analysis of Big Data sets.
However, one critical difference characterizes analysis of Big Data sets. The analysis is done over the entire set of data, rather than extracted data subsets. As such any statistical analysis is done over the entire universe of discourse, rather than utilizing sampling sets as is done with conventional statistical analysis.
The principle take home from this slide, is the enormous cost efficiency of the Hadoop Distributed File System.
The analysis of ‘Big Data’ is facilitated by open source tools and techniques which contribute to its cost effectiveness. The tools discussed above are using with Hadoop to provide a full featured computing environment.
The relationships between these tools & the Hadoop Distributed File System are made explicit in this block diagram.
This slide emphasizes in the current ‘new data’ world, the vast majority of data is unstructured and resistant to relational database techniques with respect to organization and analysis of the data.
In terms of compare and contrast, consider the Relational database Data model as illustrated above.
Now consider the data model for Hadoop. Instead of a relational structure to the data model, i.e., each data element is characterized in relationship to other data elements and all are related to a data element key field; the Hadoop model is intrinsically flat and no predefined relationships are mandated on the data prior to data manipulation. The data is partitioned into defined blocks that are then distributed in a decentralized storage & computation schema.
This slide illustrates the classical distributed database model. Conceptually, database operations are visualized as state dependent processes with a limited behavioral repertoire (insert data field, update data field, delete data field) with a final commit behavior once the data field manipulation is completed in the absence of error. In case of error or failure, the database state is returned to its pre-operation state.
The Hadoop distributed database model is completely different. Each database operation is conceptualized as a ‘job’ with each job being divided into tasks by the Map-Reduce function. With each iteration of the job, either the task is reduced to a mapping function and the database job is concluded, or the task is further reduced to another sub-task and the process repeated until the task set is reduced to a mapping function.
While this slide may have been more clear in front of the last slide, that order was selected to allow for compare and contrast with the relational distributed data base model.
But in any case at the highest level of system analysis the Hadoop computing framework consists of the Hadoop distributed file system, that is responsible for breaking even the most huge data sets into definable and uniform computational chunks. Additionally, the HDFS is responsible for establishing at a minimum a triple redundancy to the data write operation.
The other layer of the framework is the MapReduce execution engine which takes the data file blocks and further reduces file sized manipulation requests into smaller so-called task requests. The MapReduce function not only breaks the large data chunks into smaller tasks, it also tracks the tasks. In this way, optimal and maximal use of network CPU resources occurs.
To reiterate and for emphasis, Hadoop MapReduce is a software framework for easily writing applications which process vast amounts of data (multi-terabyte data-sets) in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner.
A MapReduce job usually splits the input data-set into independent chunks which are processed by the map tasks in a completely parallel manner. The framework sorts the outputs of the maps, which are then input to the reduce tasks. Typically both the input and the output of the job are stored in a file-system. The framework takes care of scheduling tasks, monitoring them and re-executes the failed tasks.
Let us consider the performance of MapReduce in the setting of a simple word count task. In this scenario, the input files of a defined size are received from the Hadoop Distributed File System for processing. Once they arrive at the MapReduce engine, the mapper reduces the input data set into two smaller sets with 1/2 of the data instances that we saw in the original data input data set, i.e., the Mapper function divides the original task into two tasks that contain 50% of the original data sets. Once this has occurred, the mapping function attempts to map to a single type of datum within the processed dataset. If this operation fails to yield a data set of unitary elements, the data set is then sorted and randomly shuffled. For the sake of illustration this data operation has resulted in different sized sets of unitary elements. But in the real processing of large quantities of elements, such a sort and shuffle operation must take place many times until a unitary element result occurs.
At this point, the sets are reduced to key value pairs (fruit type, # of instances within the input data set). The key value pairs than represent the final program outputs.
Now imagine this process occurring over a Petabyte data set and one can get a feel for the power of the MapReduce function.
Here is a more complicated MapReduce task. The goal is to take elements of two different datasets and join them into an integrated dataset.
As noted, the network functions much like any peer-peer distributed sharing system such as those seen with the bit-torrent protocol. The difference is that in addition to sharing the data across the network, operations on the data are performed at the same network nodes that function as storage nodes.
Another way to look at MapReduce is as a 5-step parallel and distributed computation:
Prepare the Map() input – the "MapReduce system" designates Map processors, assigns the input key value K1 that each processor would work on, and provides that processor with all the input data associated with that key value.
Run the user-provided Map() code – Map() is run exactly once for each K1 key value, generating output organized by key values A1.
"Shuffle" the Map output to the Reduce processors – the MapReduce system designates Reduce processors, assigns the A1…C8 key value each processor should work on, and provides that processor with all the Map-generated data associated with that key value.
Run the user-provided Reduce() code – Reduce() is run exactly once for each A1…C8 key value produced by the Map step.
Produce the final output – the MapReduce system collects all the Reduce output, and sorts it by A1…C8 to produce the final outcome.
These five steps can be Logically thought of as running in sequence – each step starts only after the previous step is completed – although in practice they can be interleaved as long as the final result is not affected.
MapReduce can take advantage of locality of data, processing it on or near the storage assets in order to reduce the distance over which it must be transmitted.
In summary,
"Map" step: Each worker node applies the "map()" function to the local data, and writes the output to a temporary storage. A master node orchestrates that for redundant copies of input data, only one is processed.
"Shuffle" step: Worker nodes redistribute data based on the output keys (produced by the "map()" function), such that all data belonging to one key is located on the same worker node.
"Reduce" step: Worker nodes now process each group of output data, per key, in parallel.
In addition to my appeal to the bit torrent file sharing protocol as a means to understand MapReduce & the Hadoop File System, I am encouraging the audience to recall the SETI@Home project which was probably the 1st well known example of massively parallel computing most layperson’s have been exposed too.
In a similar way to the SETI system, Hadoop distributes data blocks with the Hadoop file sharing/information processing cluster resulting in a massively parallel effort to process large data sets in the search for simple comparisons across those data sets, i.e., returning a list of similar books ordered by customers who have bought the book you just bought on amazon.com. This is a search result we all now take for granted, but conceptually we can now understand how this occurs in real time, without implementation of truly impossible relational database structures.
One of the ways that order is conferred on this very ad hoc file system, is both triple redundancy as well as ensuring all input files are ‘write once’ files, i.e., no modifications to input files is allowed to ensure absolute data integrity.
This slide illustrates the high level systems architecture of HDFS.
The name node is a single node in the computing cluster that is responsible for keeping track of the file system metadata. It additionally keeps a list of all the blocks within the HDFS as well as a list of all data nodes that host these blocks. I conceptualize the name node as analogous to a Domain Name Server in the TCP/IP protocol. Since it is a single point of failure in the system, it is provisioned with a resilient, highly available server.
The datanode is a shared-nothing cluster of computers capable of executing the workload components of the system.
A reiteration and summarization of the past several slides.
Hadoop can be integrated into a Enterprise Wide Information system in various system configurations.
This slide contrasts the independent Enterprise Data Warehouse with a standalone Hadoop file system.
Hadoop can be integrated with the EDW (enterprise data warehouse) as a highly efficient distributed storage and data processing system for use with existing structured data sources.
Additionally leaving the enterprise data warehouse as the sole vehicle for analysis of data, Hadoop can function to add and process unstructured as well as structured data to the EDW.
Alternatively it can be used as an efficient data archive in which all enterprise data is archived and stored via Hadoop nodes.
In this configuration, the EDW remains the single point of entry to all the available data but Hadoop can be utilized by conventional analytical programs for the purpose of analysis of large data sets utilizing defined tools.
The final data architectural design utilizes Hadoop as the sole point of contact for all enterprise wide data and data analytics.
The point of these last few slides was to emphasize the flexibility of the Hadoop system as well as too defeat the false dichotomy of either EDW or Hadoop,
In fact Hadoop plays well with others.
This slide demonstrates both current and projected areas of Big Data efforts in the fields of Biomedicine.
Of course, given the enormous combinatorial complexity of Genomics research the application of Big Data techniques seems axiomatic.
Additionally, given the financial resources and development costs related to drug research, simulation and advanced analysis systems have the potential to dramatically reduce drug development costs. By the way of analogy, the advent of modern ‘supercomputers’ was necessitated by treaty obligations that prevented all atomic weapons testing. Once the need for high speed weapons effects simulations became a national priority, high speed computing efforts became the focus of technological revolution.
Not as obvious, but given that this type of computing (highly distributed, massively parallel) was pioneered by consumer driven web based enterprises that were trying to understand ‘individual consumer choices’ psychiatric and behavioral health analysis and applications seems as axiomatic as Genomics or pharmacological applications.
Epidemiological research by reason of the potential size of their data sets also promise to yield significant insights from this computing methodology.
Novel sensor analysis seems to me a long term benefit for this type of computational capacity. For example, while heart rate variability analysis has been a tool of cardiology for as long as my career, it has always been utilized in the isolated clinical case. Having massive amounts of heart rate data linked to personal activity logs and temporal data promise to yield dramatic insights into the area of sudden cardiac death, chronotropic dependences of AMI, neurohumoral and temporal factors dictating onset of atrial fibrillation, relationships between exercise and onset of cardiac disease, etc.
While real results will be derived from this powerful new set of data manipulations, the reality is that we are on the ascending limb of the hype curve, and it is too soon to prognosticate if this is an evolutionary or revolutionary change in computing methodology.