Having a good healthcare system is a challenge and has been a work in progress for a long time however those countries, hospitals that manage to make these changes the results are very impressive. Therefore it is important to know there are huge benefits of big data storage and their integration to the healthcare system. There are challenges involved include data security, cost, the performance by the IT department. Data security is the number one challenge that is faced by any organization including healthcare when they want to store data electronically and integrate them with other systems. This is because there are so many cases of data breach and hacking that has been taking place for some time now and therefore there is need for extra measure to ensure there will be no such case (Bresnick, 2017). There are other challenges is brought by the cost of storage and the actual integrations and even maintenances that will be happening often. Hardly do nurses or clinicians know the cost of storage of data which is very expensive and therefore. The last major disadvantages are reliability in performance, sometimes the system fails, and unlike the traditional one when the electronics data fail the whole system grinds to halt.
The advantages of big data storage are one having a longer shelf life unlike the use of paper which does not stay for long. The other benefit is efficiency unlike paper, electronic data can be shared and transferred to deferent departments faster.