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by Angela Guess Ki Mae Heussner of GigaOM reports, “Properly exploiting big data in health care could mean up to $450 billion in savings health care organizations and consumers according to a recent report from consulting firm McKinsey. But don’t get too excited yet – that data-optimized future isn’t just going to fall in our laps....
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by Angela Guess According to a recent release out of the company, “IBM, WellPoint, Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center unveiled the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs. These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine.The American Cancer...
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by Angela Guess Paula Mauro of the Journal of AHIMA recently wrote, “Health information management principles that support timely, accurate and complete data collection and release are part of the key to meeting recent National Quality Strategy goals aimed at improving healthcare service delivery, patient health outcomes, and population health. The HIM professional’s role...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM has written an article discussing the numerous applications of Big Data to health care. He writes, “Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and hospital administration understand that new types of data analysis are the key to...
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by Angela Guess Deborah Hirsch of HealthTechZone.com reports, “Cloudera announced that its co-founder and chief scientist, Jeff Hammerbacher will lead a project with Mount Sinai School of Medicine to use Cloudera’s big data platform to predict and understand the process and treatment of disease. ‘We are at the cutting edge of disease prevention and...
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by Angela Guess Mike Wheatley of SiliconAngle reports, “It’s not just big businesses that can benefit from harnessing data to streamline their operations. There’s more potential for big data analysis than simply making big profits – with a little creativity, it can also be used to help save lives, as a number of hospitals...
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by Angela Guess Linda Tucci of Search CIO recently asked the question, “How much do big data and analytics matter? Companies will gain or lose market share based on their capacity to leverage big data, according to Michael Chui, San Francisco-based senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of New York-based...
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by Angela Guess Robert E. Litan of The Atlantic recently discussed the potential of Big Data to improve health care contrasted with the privacy concerns involved. He writes, “Last month, 30 experts from various backgrounds convened by the Kauffman Foundation issued a report, Valuing Health Care, that offered some familiar and some not-so-familiar recommendations...
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by Angela Guess Jordan Robertson of Businessweek recently discussed how Big Data is being utilized in health care, particularly in hospitals. Robertson writes, “When patients show up at a hospital, something dangerous happens: They’re looked at by humans. Because of the hustle in busy emergency rooms and admission wards, many patients get only a...
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by Angela Guess Jeff Scheepers of Informatica recently noted that health care companies are evolving their use of MDM. He writes, “It’s clear that within the provider community, MDM is quickly maturing beyond a single virtual view of the patient using an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI). To give you a bit of detail about...
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