Big Data-Driven Healthcare Project Financing

Abstract

Healthcare investments are faced by the need to match growing expenses, due to ageing population trends, with public budget constraints. Infrastructural PF packages are by now popular and effective, although they are rigid and long-termed. Big data-driven value chains add unprecedented information to project financing (PF) and public private partnerships (PPPs), especially in healthcare investments. Big data and Internet of Health sensors, currently adopted in telemedicine, can be applied even to PF strategies, providing useful information to data-driven business plans. Public and Private Partners interact through networking big data and interoperable databases, boosting value co-creation, improving Value for Money, and reducing risk. Policy makers can conveniently use networked big data to enrich their feasibility plans, whereas private managers may extract precious information from public healthcare databases. Big data can also help shortening supply chain passages, boosting economic marginality and easing the sustainable planning of smart healthcare investments.