eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2333-4533 2018-06-29 6 3 104 111 10.12691/jbms-6-3-7 JBMS2018637 article Cheryl Ann Alexander tech.health.sol@gmail.com 1 Lidong Wang 2 Institute for Information Technology Innovations & Smart Healthcare, Vicksburg, MS, USA Institute for Systems Engineering Research, Mississippi State University, Vicksburg, MS, USA Data analytics has been used in healthcare. Healthcare systems generate big data. Traditional data management techniques are often unable to manage the voluminous amounts of data produced in healthcare systems. Big Data analytics which is overcoming the limitations of traditional data analytics will bring revolutions in healthcare systems. Big data and Big Data analytics in healthcare systems are presented in this paper. Information security, privacy, and challenges of Big Data analytics in healthcare are also discussed. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/6/3/7/jbms-6-3-7.pdf big data big data analytics cloud computing fog computing stream processing healthcare personalized medicine information security privacy