Projected health data storage limitations in 2020

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Conor Stewart,
Aug 16, 2019
The amount of global healthcare data is expected to increase dramatically by the year 2020. Despite the growing amount of data, there is not enough storage space to accommodate the data being generated. It is projected that by 2020 there will be 985 exabytes of storage available for healthcare data but there will be 2,314 exabytes of healthcare data generated.

Total data storage capacity compared to the total amount of healthcare data generated in 2020 (in exabytes)

CharacteristicData size in exabytes
Medical data generated 2,314
Storage capacity 985
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Data size in exabytes9859852,3142,314Storage capacityMedical data generated
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July 2018

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as of July 2018

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1 exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes

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