Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Computer Sciences - Industry 4.0, grade: A: 90/100 ODER 1,0, Lund University (Informatik), course: Business Intelligence, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper discusses how big data analytics might support healthcare organizations (e.g., hospitals) in medical diagnosis. The paper proceeds as follows: First, an overview of big data analytics in healthcare is provided with a focus on medical image analytics. Second, two large-scale image analysis cases are presented to materialize the theory upon which an integrated framework is proposed that illustrates how big data analytics might assist medical diagnosis. Third, the contemporary challenges of IT adoption in healthcare are discussed, and lastly, a brief conclusion is drawn.