At the heart of healthcare today is the need to manage, aggregate and analyze large amounts of complex disparate data in a continuous manner, acquire meaningful insight from the results, and use these insights to drive material change to patient outcomes and economics.The healthcare industry faces multiple challenges ranging from new disease outbreaks, to maintaining an optimal operational efficiency, to managing the health of an aging and ill population. With the vast amount of data available in the healthcare sector (financial, clinical, R&D, administration and operational data), big data can derive meaningful insights to improve the operational efficiency of the industry.