'Beyond IT, Hadoop Can Help India's Healthcare
In addition, he said, if healthcare companies can integrate patient data together with social media content into their data management system, they can even get "better collection of information from which the associations concealed inside can be revealed".
Though Hadoop has proved indispensable for a thriving career in the IT and data analytics industry and has made inroads in the corporate sector as well, its potential is yet to be explored in India's healthcare and life science industries, said Mainak Maheshwari, Director (Talent) at Gurgaon's Absolutdata Analytics.
"Big Data and Hadoop are everywhere. However, in India, as far as the healthcare sector is concerned, it is not explored as much.
"Typically you will see that insurance companies would have huge amounts of data regarding health insurances. Big hospital and healthcare chains, which are not many in India, also have a good amount of data especially like the patients' database," Maheshwari told IANS on the phone.
Diwakar Chittora, CEO of Jaipur's Intellipaat.com, an online platform for high quality low cost courses, concurred.
He said biological computations, such as gene sequencing and weather forecasting, require intensive algorithms and this means those with a Hadoop skill-set, especially bio-informaticians, can do the job in lesser time.
"We have seen a sharp increase in business analysts taking the course, one of our most popular courses. Looking at the trends and growing awareness, we can definitely say there is a huge unexplored scope in medical and health industries," Chittora told IANS.
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