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Big Data Skills Sustainable Development in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
António Miguel Pesqueira (António Miguel Pesqueira); Maria José Sousa (Sousa, M.); Álvaro Manuel Reis da Rocha (Rocha, Álvaro);
Journal Title
Journal of Medical Systems
Year (definitive publication)
2020
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
Big Data technology is one of the most promising organizational processes within the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry and crucial for any company that wants to preserve the competitive advantage in the market, where most of the organizational structures are already struggling with the right skills and knowledge to fully support existing business needs for storing and processing and even analyzing information. This paper aims to examine the extent to which new Big Data technology and data-related processes are developing different professionals skills and competencies within the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries, and creating sustainable development in addressing critical organizational challenges in recruiting, retaining, and discover professional skills that can fully support the advances and exponential growth of Big Data technology benefits. This research paper also highlights the significant aspects of Big Data in professional technical and process oriented skills development, and the influence it has on organizational business processes including how various internal functions will need to adapt to new circumstances with renewed competency and skills development programs for departments that are strongly connected to the business and analytical needs. We conducted a focus group with twenty-five industry based professionals’ ranges from analysts to executive directors to better assess the necessary knowledge to answer the proposed research questions: (1) which professional skills can big data influence in employee development and (2) how can organizations adapt their employee skills to big data. Regarding the key research limitations/implications most of the article and research was built on the foundation of the literature review and the performed focus group. The conceptual recommendations and observations presented provide solid empirical evidence but should be subjected to more comprehensive, large-scale empirical testing and validation. It’s recommended for future research a more extensive sample of companies, organizations, and interviewees. Studying a broader set of similar research questions in more homogeneous organizations could provide deeper insights into the process, governance, and stakeholder dimensions of Big Data within specific contexts. Therefore this study contributes to explore in-depth and systematically to what extent Big Data technology and processes are currently influencing the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industries where to the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first focus group dealing with the presented research questions.
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Keywords
Big data,Skills development,Healthcare and pharmaceutical,Professionals skills
  • Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
  • Clinical Medicine - Medical and Health Sciences
  • Health Sciences - Medical and Health Sciences
  • Other Medical Sciences - Medical and Health Sciences
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UIDB/00315/2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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