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The impact of emerging technologies in the field of business intelligence is shaping the decision-making processes of the healthcare delivery system. Potentially, big data in the healthcare delivery system could provide administrators with the needed insight to determine what customers/patients want and expect from their healthcare providers. From a clinical perspective, big data could provide the necessary information to determine what positive healthcare interventions are needed for marginalized and underserved demographics. In other words, big data can tell you how and what information is needed to set policies and processes that will encourage specific populations to seek needed health care.

In this week’s discussion address the following prompts in a minimum of 500 words:

  • Describe two technologies used in the healthcare delivery system. Examples: analytics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive computing.
  • Define cloud computing and explain how cloud computing affects Business Intelligence.
  • Summarize how geospatial and location-based analytics could be implemented to assist healthcare organizations.
  • Explain three legal and privacy issues regarding analytics within the healthcare delivery system.