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Big data problems in healthcare and the objectives of the study according to the previous arguments are listed as follows:
Big data problems in healthcare and the objectives of the study according to the previous arguments are listed as follows:


1. Increasing number of patients: The global population and average human lifespan are apparently increasing. For example, in Turkey, the number of visits to a physician has increased by about 4% per year since 2012.<ref name="BaşaraSağlık16">{{cite web |url=http://www.deik.org.tr/contents-fileaction-15401 |title=Sağlık İstatistikleri Yıllığı 2016 Haber Bülteni |author=Başara, B.B.; Güler, C. |publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health General Directorate for Health Research |date=2017}}</ref> Moreover, the total number of per capita visits to a physician in healthcare facilities in 2016 was 8.6 while this value was 8.2 in 2012. As the number of patients increases, the amount of collected data also increases dramatically, which creates much more data to be managed.
:1. Increasing number of patients: The global population and average human lifespan are apparently increasing. For example, in Turkey, the number of visits to a physician has increased by about 4% per year since 2012.<ref name="BaşaraSağlık16">{{cite web |url=http://www.deik.org.tr/contents-fileaction-15401 |title=Sağlık İstatistikleri Yıllığı 2016 Haber Bülteni |author=Başara, B.B.; Güler, C. |publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health General Directorate for Health Research |date=2017}}</ref> Moreover, the total number of per capita visits to a physician in healthcare facilities in 2016 was 8.6 while this value was 8.2 in 2012. As the number of patients increases, the amount of collected data also increases dramatically, which creates much more data to be managed.


2. Technological devices: Extensively used digital healthcare devices create high-resolution graphical outputs, which means huge amounts of data to be stored.
:2. Technological devices: Extensively used digital healthcare devices create high-resolution graphical outputs, which means huge amounts of data to be stored.


3. Expert personnel needs: To manage big data in institutions using software platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, etc., qualified information technology specialists must be brought in to deploy, manage, and store big data solutions.<ref name="RaghupathiBig14">{{cite journal |title=Big data analytics in healthcare: Promise and potential |journal=Health Information Science and Systems |author=Raghupathi, W.; Raghupathi, V. |volume=2 |page=3 |year=2014 |doi=10.1186/2047-2501-2-3 |pmid=25825667 |pmc=PMC4341817}}</ref>
:3. Expert personnel needs: To manage big data in institutions using software platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, etc., qualified information technology specialists must be brought in to deploy, manage, and store big data solutions.<ref name="RaghupathiBig14">{{cite journal |title=Big data analytics in healthcare: Promise and potential |journal=Health Information Science and Systems |author=Raghupathi, W.; Raghupathi, V. |volume=2 |page=3 |year=2014 |doi=10.1186/2047-2501-2-3 |pmid=25825667 |pmc=PMC4341817}}</ref>


4. Small file size problem: Current solutions for healthcare, including Hadoop-based solutions, have a block size of 64 MB (detailed in the next section). This leads to vulnerabilities in performance and unnecessary storage usage, called "internal fragmentation," that is difficult to resolve.
:4. Small file size problem: Current solutions for healthcare, including Hadoop-based solutions, have a block size of 64 MB (detailed in the next section). This leads to vulnerabilities in performance and unnecessary storage usage, called "internal fragmentation," that is difficult to resolve.


5. [[Hospital information system]]s (HIS): These systems represent comprehensive software and related tools that help healthcare providers produce, store, fetch, and exchange patient [[information]] more efficiently and enable better patient tracking and care. The HIS must have essential non-functional properties like (a) robustness, (b) performance, (c) scalability, and (d) availability. These properties basically depend on a constructed data management architecture, which includes configured hardware devices and installed software tools. A HIS is responsible for solving big data problems alone, though it is much more than an IT project or a traditional application. As such, third-party software tools are needed to achieve the objectives of the healthcare providers.
:5. [[Hospital information system]]s (HIS): These systems represent comprehensive software and related tools that help healthcare providers produce, store, fetch, and exchange patient [[information]] more efficiently and enable better patient tracking and care. The HIS must have essential non-functional properties like (a) robustness, (b) performance, (c) scalability, and (d) availability. These properties basically depend on a constructed data management architecture, which includes configured hardware devices and installed software tools. A HIS is responsible for solving big data problems alone, though it is much more than an IT project or a traditional application. As such, third-party software tools are needed to achieve the objectives of the healthcare providers.
 
This study seeks to obtain a mid-layer software platform which will help to address these healthcare gaps. In other words, we have implemented a server-cluster platform to store and to return health digital image data. It acts as a bridge between the HIS and various hardware resources located on the network. There are five primary aims of this study:
 
:1. to overcome growing data problems by implementing a distributed data layer between the HIS and server-cluster platform;
 
:2. to reduce operational costs, with no need to employ IT specialists to install and to deploy popular big data solutions;
 
:3. to implement a new distributed file system architecture to achieve non-functional properties like performance, security, and scalability, which are of crucial importance for a HIS;
 
:4. to show and prove that there can be different successful big data solutions; and, especially,
 
:5. to solve these gaps efficiently for our university HIS.
 
In this study, the first section describes general data processing methods. The second part discusses the work and related literature on the subject, while the third part is the materials and methods section that describes the implemented approach. The last section is the conclusion of the evaluation that emerges as the result of our work.


==References==
==References==

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Full article title Developing a file system structure to solve healthcare big data storage and archiving problems using a distributed file system
Journal Applied Sciences
Author(s) Ergüzen, Atilla; Ünver, Mahmut
Author affiliation(s) Kırıkkale University
Primary contact Email: munver at kku dot edu dot tr
Year published 2018
Volume and issue 8(6)
Page(s) 913
DOI 10.3390/app8060913
ISSN 2076-3417
Distribution license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Website http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/6/913/htm
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Abstract

Recently, the use of the internet has become widespread, increasing the use of mobile phones, tablets, computers, internet of things (IoT) devices, and other digital sources. In the healthcare sector, with the help of next generation digital medical equipment, this digital world also has tended to grow in an unpredictable way such that nearly 10 percent of global data is healthcare-related, continuing to grow beyond what other sectors have. This progress has greatly enlarged the amount of produced data which cannot be resolved with conventional methods. In this work, an efficient model for the storage of medical images using a distributed file system structure has been developed. With this work, a robust, available, scalable, and serverless solution structure has been produced, especially for storing large amounts of data in the medical field. Furthermore, the security level of the system is extreme by use of static Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, user credentials, and synchronously encrypted file contents. One of the most important key features of the system is high performance and easy scalability. In this way, the system can work with fewer hardware elements and be more robust than others that use name node architecture. According to the test results, the performance of the designed system is better than 97% from a Not Only Structured Query Language (NoSQL) system, 80% from a relational database management system (RDBMS), and 74% from an operating system (OS).

Keywords: big data, distributed file system, health data, medical imaging

Introduction

In recent years, advances in information technology have increased worldwide; internet usage has exponentially accelerated the amount of data generated in all fields. The number of internet users was 16 million in 1995. This number reached 304 million in 2000, 888 million in 2005, 1.996 billion in 2010, 3.270 billion in 2015, and 3.885 billion in 2017.[1][2][3] Every day, 2.5 exabytes (EB) of data are produced worldwide. Also, 90% of globally generated data has been produced since 2015. The data generated are in many different fields such as aviation, meteorology, IoT applications, health, and energy sectors. Likewise, the data produced through social media has reached enormous volumes. Not only did Facebook.com store 600 terabytes (TB) of data a day in 2014, but Google also processed hundreds of petabytes (PB) of data per day in the same year.[4][5] Data production has also increased at a remarkable rate in the healthcare sector; widespread use of digital medical imaging peripherals has triggered this data production. Also, the data generated in the healthcare sector has reached such a point that it cannot be managed easily with traditional data management tools and hardware. Healthcare has accumulated a big data volume by keeping patients’ records, creating medical imaging that helps doctors with diagnoses, outputting digital files from various devices, and creating and storing the results of different surveys. Different types of data sources produce data in various structured and unstructured formats; examples include patient information, laboratory results, X-ray devices, computed tomography (CT) devices, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). World population and average human lifespan is apparently increasing continuously, which means an exponential increase in the number of patients to be served. As the number of patients increases, the amount of collected data also increases dramatically. Additionally, exhaustive digital healthcare devices make higher-density graphical outputs easy additions to the growing body of data. In 2011, the amount of data in the healthcare sector in the U.S. reached 150 EB. In 2013, it appeared to have achieved 153 EB. In 2020, it is estimated that this number will reach 2.3 ZB. For example, electronic medical record (EMR) use has increased 31% from 2001 to 2005 and more than 50% from 2005 to 2008.[6][7] While neuroimaging operation data sizes had reached approximately 200 GB per year between 1985 and 1989, it has risen to 5 PB annually between 2010 and 2014, yet another indicator of the increase in data in the healthcare sector.[8]

In this way, new problems have emerged due to the increasing volume of data generated in all fields at the global level. Now there are substantial challenges to store and to analyze the data. The storage of data has become costlier than gathering it.[9] Thus, the amount of data that is produced, stored, and manipulated has increased dramatically, and because of this increase, big data and data science/knowledge have begun to develop.[10] Big data is a reference to the variety, velocity, and volume of data; concerning healthcare records, finding an acceptable approach to cover these issues is particularly difficult to accomplish.

Big data problems in healthcare and the objectives of the study according to the previous arguments are listed as follows:

1. Increasing number of patients: The global population and average human lifespan are apparently increasing. For example, in Turkey, the number of visits to a physician has increased by about 4% per year since 2012.[11] Moreover, the total number of per capita visits to a physician in healthcare facilities in 2016 was 8.6 while this value was 8.2 in 2012. As the number of patients increases, the amount of collected data also increases dramatically, which creates much more data to be managed.
2. Technological devices: Extensively used digital healthcare devices create high-resolution graphical outputs, which means huge amounts of data to be stored.
3. Expert personnel needs: To manage big data in institutions using software platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, etc., qualified information technology specialists must be brought in to deploy, manage, and store big data solutions.[12]
4. Small file size problem: Current solutions for healthcare, including Hadoop-based solutions, have a block size of 64 MB (detailed in the next section). This leads to vulnerabilities in performance and unnecessary storage usage, called "internal fragmentation," that is difficult to resolve.
5. Hospital information systems (HIS): These systems represent comprehensive software and related tools that help healthcare providers produce, store, fetch, and exchange patient information more efficiently and enable better patient tracking and care. The HIS must have essential non-functional properties like (a) robustness, (b) performance, (c) scalability, and (d) availability. These properties basically depend on a constructed data management architecture, which includes configured hardware devices and installed software tools. A HIS is responsible for solving big data problems alone, though it is much more than an IT project or a traditional application. As such, third-party software tools are needed to achieve the objectives of the healthcare providers.

This study seeks to obtain a mid-layer software platform which will help to address these healthcare gaps. In other words, we have implemented a server-cluster platform to store and to return health digital image data. It acts as a bridge between the HIS and various hardware resources located on the network. There are five primary aims of this study:

1. to overcome growing data problems by implementing a distributed data layer between the HIS and server-cluster platform;
2. to reduce operational costs, with no need to employ IT specialists to install and to deploy popular big data solutions;
3. to implement a new distributed file system architecture to achieve non-functional properties like performance, security, and scalability, which are of crucial importance for a HIS;
4. to show and prove that there can be different successful big data solutions; and, especially,
5. to solve these gaps efficiently for our university HIS.

In this study, the first section describes general data processing methods. The second part discusses the work and related literature on the subject, while the third part is the materials and methods section that describes the implemented approach. The last section is the conclusion of the evaluation that emerges as the result of our work.

References

  1. ↑ "Internet Live Stats". InternetLiveStats.com. http://www.internetlivestats.com/. Retrieved 16 July 2016. 
  2. ↑ Kemp, S. (27 January 2016). "Digital in 2016". We Are Social. We Are Social Ltd. https://wearesocial.com/uk/special-reports/digital-in-2016. Retrieved 27 June 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Internet Growth Statistics". Internet World Stats. Miniwatts Marketing Group. https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm. Retrieved 21 May 2018. 
  4. ↑ Vagata, P.; Wilfong, K. (10 April 2014). "Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB". Facebook Code. Facebook. https://code.facebook.com/posts/229861827208629/scaling-the-facebook-data-warehouse-to-300-pb/. Retrieved 27 June 2016. 
  5. ↑ Dhavalchandra, P.; Jignasu, M.; Amit, R. (2016). "Big data—A survey of big data technologies". International Journal Of Science Research and Technology 2 (1): 45–50. http://www.ijsrt.us/vol2issue1.aspx. 
  6. ↑ Dean, B.B.; Lam, J.; Natoli, J.L. et al. (2009). "Review: Use of electronic medical records for health outcomes research: A literature review". Medical Care Research and Review 66 (6): 611–38. doi:10.1177/1077558709332440. PMID 19279318. 
  7. ↑ Ergüzen, A.; Erdal, E. (2017). "Medical Image Archiving System Implementation with Lossless Region of Interest and Optical Character Recognition". Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 7 (6): 1246-1252. doi:10.1166/jmihi.2017.2156. 
  8. ↑ Dinov, I.D. (2016). "Volume and Value of Big Healthcare Data". Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics 4: 3. doi:10.7243/2053-7662-4-3. PMC PMC4795481. PMID 26998309. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795481. 
  9. ↑ Elgendy N.; Elragal A. (2014). "Big Data Analytics: A Literature Review Paper". In Perner, P.. Advances in Data Mining. Applications and Theoretical Aspects. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 8557. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08976-8_16. ISBN 9783319089768. 
  10. ↑ Gürsakal, N. (2014). Büyük Veri. Dora Yayıncılık. p. 2. 
  11. ↑ Başara, B.B.; Güler, C. (2017). "Sağlık İstatistikleri Yıllığı 2016 Haber Bülteni". Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health General Directorate for Health Research. http://www.deik.org.tr/contents-fileaction-15401. 
  12. ↑ Raghupathi, W.; Raghupathi, V. (2014). "Big data analytics in healthcare: Promise and potential". Health Information Science and Systems 2: 3. doi:10.1186/2047-2501-2-3. PMC PMC4341817. PMID 25825667. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341817. 

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