This document discusses whether health data constitutes big data. It identifies several sources of health data, such as clinical data, medical publications, and genomic data. While health data storage is projected to reach 25,000 petabytes by 2020, health data only accounts for 30% of the world's total data storage compared to other data-rich domains. However, the healthcare system has not fully optimized the potential benefits of big data due to issues like a lack of data integration and standardization. While health data is large, it is not as big as data from other domains that have more successfully harnessed the value of big data analytics.
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