Going Digital: A Survey on Digitalization and Large Scale Data Analytics in Healthcare.

We provide an overview of the recent trends towards digitalization and large scale data analytics in healthcare. Both are instrumental in the dramatic changes in the way healthcare will be organized in the future. We discuss the recent political initiatives designed to shift care delivery processes from paper to electronic, with the goals of more effective treatments with better outcomes; cost pressure is a major driver of innovation. We describe newly developed networks of healthcare providers, research organizations and commercial vendors to jointly analyse data for the development of decision support systems. We are addressing the trend towards continuous healthcare where health is monitored by wearable and stationary devices; a related development is that patients increasingly take responsibility for their own health data. Finally we discuss recent initiatives towards a personalized medicine, based on advances in molecular medicine, data management, and data analytics.