Dear Colleagues,

This growth in big medical data, together with the expansion of computational models in healthcare, has aided researchers and practitioners in analyzing big healthcare data.

Furthermore, big data analytics have been used in healthcare by providing personalized medicine and prescriptive analytics, waste and care variability reduction, clinical risk intervention and predictive analytics, automated external and internal reporting of patient data, standardized medical terms and patient registries.

Big data in healthcare research encourages exploratory-medical research, as AI-based data-driven analysis can move forward faster than hypothesis-driven research.

Guest Editors