Advancing Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Service Delivery

In recent years, there has been steady increase in the interest shown in both big data analytics and the use of information technology (IT) solutions to improve healthcare services. Despite the growing interest, there are limited materials, to addressing the needs and challenges posed by the activities and processes including the use of big data. From IT solutions' perspectives, this book aims to advance the deployment and use of big data analytics to increase patients' big data usefulness and improve healthcare service delivery.

The book provides significant insights and useful guide on how to access and manage big data, in improving healthcare service delivery. The book contributes a fresh perspective, which primarily comes from the complementary use of analytics approach with actor-network theory (ANT), and other techniques, in advancing healthcare service delivery. Accessing and managing healthcare big data have always been a challenging exercise. Due to the sensitivity of the health sector, the focus on patients' big data is from either technical or social perspective. Thus, the book employs sociotechnical theories, ANT and structuration theory (ST) as lenses to examine and explain the factors that enable and constrain the use of patients' big data for health services. By doing so, the book brings a different dimension and advance health service delivery.

Providing a timely and important contribution to this critical area, this book is a valuable, international resource for academics, postgraduate students and researchers in the areas of IT, big data analytics, data management and health informatics.

近年來，對於大數據分析和利用資訊科技（IT）解決方案改善醫療服務的興趣持續增加。儘管有越來越多的興趣，但在應對包括大數據使用在內的需求和挑戰方面的資料有限。從IT解決方案的角度來看，本書旨在推進大數據分析的部署和使用，以提高患者的大數據價值和改善醫療服務交付。

本書提供了重要的見解和有用的指南，關於如何存取和管理大數據，以改善醫療服務交付。本書提供了一個新的觀點，主要是通過結合分析方法與行動者網絡理論（ANT）和其他技術，推進醫療服務交付。存取和管理醫療大數據一直是一項具有挑戰性的任務。由於醫療部門的敏感性，對患者的大數據的關注從技術或社會角度來看。因此，本書運用社會技術理論、ANT和結構化理論（ST）作為鏡頭，以檢視和解釋影響患者大數據在健康服務中使用的因素。通過這樣做，本書為健康服務交付帶來了不同的維度和進步。

本書對這一關鍵領域做出了及時且重要的貢獻，是IT、大數據分析、數據管理和健康信息學領域的學者、研究生和研究人員的寶貴國際資源。

Tiko Iyamu holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, Iyamu is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa. Previously, he was with the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, and Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia. Iyamu served as a Professor Extraordinaire at the Department of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, from 2006 to 2015. In 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Professor Iyamu's areas of focus include enterprise architecture, health informatics, big data analytics and mobile computing. In addition, he has keen interest in the application of sociotechnical theories, such as actor-network theory, structuration theory and diffusion of innovation for information systems research. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed research articles in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Prof Iyamu has authored seven books, including Applying theories for information systems research and Enterprise Architecture for Strategic Management of Modern IT Solutions. He has received several awards in research and excellence in supervision of postgraduates.

Tiko Iyamu擁有南非開普敦大學的資訊系統博士學位。目前，Iyamu是南非開普敦半島科技大學（CPUT）資訊學院的研究教授。之前，他曾在南非的特瓦內科技大學和納米比亞科學與技術大學任職。Iyamu於2006年至2015年期間擔任南非開普敦大學計算機科學系的特聘教授。2014年，他曾在德國弗倫斯堡應用科學大學擔任訪問教授。Iyamu教授的研究領域包括企業架構、健康資訊學、大數據分析和移動計算。此外，他對於社會技術理論的應用，如行動者網絡理論、結構化理論和創新擴散在資訊系統研究中具有濃厚的興趣。他在期刊、會議論文和專書章節中發表了超過160篇同行評審的研究文章。Iyamu教授撰寫了七本書，包括《應用理論於資訊系統研究》和《企業架構用於現代IT解決方案的戰略管理》。他曾獲得多個研究和博士生指導卓越獎項。