Panacea of challenges in real-world application of big data analytics in healthcare sector

Big data analytics is emerging ever since it has been introduced in the healthcare sector. It has given tools to gather, operate, assess, and associate large volumes of disparate, structured and unstructured data that are generated by present healthcare systems. Big data has been lately functional towards helping in the process of care delivery and disease exploration. Howbeit, due to some fundamental problems, the progress in care delivery and disease exploration is blocked. Fundamental problems such as data cleaning, capturing, security and privacy, storage, and how data is visualized hinder the expansion of big data in the healthcare sector. In this paper, we discuss these challenges, methods used to overcome these challenges, and results obtained. Based on the obtained results; the conclusion has been drawn to keep advancing in the healthcare sector.