Big Data Risks and Rewards When you wake in the morning, you

Big Data Risks and Rewards When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone toreply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. Onyour drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival,you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility.And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by thecafeteria to purchase a coffee. From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generationmachine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using adebit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, createsdata. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Manystudies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering:Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generatedevery second for every person on earth. As the volume of data increases, information professionals havelooked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that requirespecialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potentialfor significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In thisDiscussion, you will consider these risks and rewards. To Prepare: Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs.Reflect on your own experience with complex health informationaccess and management and consider potential challenges and risks youmay have experienced or observed.