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Big data has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, promising better patient outcomes and lower costs - August Calhoun PhD
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How Big Data Is Changing Healthcare
If you want to find out how Big Data is helping to make the world a better place, there’s no better example than the uses being found for it in healthcare.
The last decade has seen huge advances in the amount of data we routinely generate and collect in pretty much everything we do, as well as our ability to use technology to analyze and understand it. The intersection of these trends is what we call “Big Data” and it is helping businesses in every industry to become more efficient and productive.
Healthcare is no different. Beyond improving profits and cutting down on wasted overhead, Big Data in healthcare is being used to predict epidemics, cure disease, improve quality…
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IBM Has a Watson Dilemma
Big Blue promised its AI platform would be a big step forward in treating cancer. But after pouring billions into the project, the diagnosis is gloomy.
Why Apple, Amazon, and Google are making big health care moves
It is way, way, way too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.
Apple and Amazon’s moves in health signal a coming transformation
The world’s biggest tech firms see an opportunity in health care, which could mean empowered patients, better diagnosis of disease and lower costs.
Health Care Is Hemorrhaging Data. AI Is Here to Help
But in the walled-off world of health care, with its HIPAA laws and privacy hot buttons, AI is only just beginning to change the way doctors see, diagnose, treat, and monitor patients. The potential to save lives and money is tremendous; one report estimates big data-crunching algorithms could save medicine and pharma up to $100 billion a year, as a result of AI-assisted efficiencies in clinical trials, research, and decision-making in the doctor’s office. Which is why tech titans like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and Apple are spinning up their own AI health care pet projects. And why every health-focused startup pitching Silicon Valley VCs throws in a “machine learning” or “deep neural net” for good measure.
5 Big Data Trends in Healthcare for 2017
The healthcare industry, perhaps more than any other, is on the brink of a major transformation through the use of advanced analytics and big data technologies.
Amino Harnesses Health Industry Data for Consumers
Amino joins a growing number of start-ups — and other organizations — mining data sources in new ways to manage health care for payers and consumers.
Big Data Analytics Poses Problems, Promises for Healthcare
Correlation does not equal causation when it comes to big data analytics in the healthcare industry.
Big data and the future of healthcare
Healthcare solutions built around smartphones, cloud computing, and big data have the potential to cut through bureaucracy and put power back in the hands of consumers and their doctors.
Big Data in Healthcare Made Simple: Where It Stands Today and Where It’s Going
Currently, the majority of healthcare institutions are swamped with some very pedestrian problems such as regulatory reporting and operational dashboards. Most just need the proverbial “air and water” right now, but once basic needs are met and some of the initial advanced applications are in place, new use cases will arrive (e.g. wearable medical devices and sensors) driving the need for big-data-style solutions.
Big Data Is Crucial To The Future Of Our Health-Care System
The epicenter of today's revolution in health care, however, is the collection and review of massive pools of complex patient data (also known as "big data") that allow for more precise, individualized treatment strategies.
Big Health Data, Huge Opportunities
The era of Big Health Data is upon us. More than 90 percent of hospitals and three-quarters of physicians are already using EHRs for most care. Sharing of data within and between health care providers and health systems is rapidly increasing.
Harnessing big data for health
There are potentially many important research questions that could be answered using big data — beyond what we can uncover with routinely collected data. For example, multiplatform data could help us discover the most important “upstream” and environmental determinants of high-burden disease, to guide policy-making beyond health that could achieve health wins.2 Big data could also help us redefine antibiotic stewardship.
Harnessing Big Data To Transform Patient Outcomes
Big data has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, promising better patient outcomes and lower costs.
How Big Data Could Transform The Health Care Industry
Emerging technologies are paving the way to the personalized medicine of the future.
How Smartphone Data Can Make Healthcare Smarter
“Big data is not just about big numbers, but also the patterns that can explain important health trends,” the researchers say. “Data science and modeling can be immensely powerful tools. They can aid in harnessing and analyzing all the personalized data that we get from our phones and wearable devices.”
How to Mine Big Data like a Pro
Companies that have tried and failed to glean insights from data should first of all accept that failure and iteration is part of the process. But they can maximize their odds of success by getting smarter about using machine learning. Here are eight ways to do it...
Leveraging big data to improve health outcomes for all
Big data and new technological innovations have the potential to address health inequalities and improve health outcomes for patients. These new tools and methods are able to provide a stronger evidence base for more efficient, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable healthcare delivery.
Making It Personal: Why Everyone Should Care About Big Data
More and more, we will see patients learning about, interacting with and embracing Big Data as if it actually matters to them. Because — whether it’s how they’re treated in the hospital or how they keep themselves healthy at home — it does.
The Best Healthcare System In The World Is About Change
The five-year forward view, published in October 2014 by NHS England, set out a vision of biggest integrated care of any major western country. This transformational change is taking the form of ‘accountable care systems’ (ACSs) covering seven million people, as highlighted in the five year forward view refresh- 2017.
The big-data revolution in US health care: Accelerating value and innovation
Big data could transform the health-care sector, but the industry must undergo fundamental changes before stakeholders can capture its full value.
The Future of Your Medical Data
How health data is becoming better connected, a la Facebook, changing the way patients, doctors and institutions interact.
The Health Data Conundrum
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U.S. Seeks to Harness Health Data to Fight Opioid Crisis
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Why harnessing health data isn’t enough
The technological possibilities are endless. Consumers are increasingly online and engaged. With the right approach, we can create new model of healthcare delivery, moving care from the hospital or doctor's office into patients' everyday lives.
How Big Data Is Changing Healthcare
If you want to find out how Big Data is helping to make the world a better place, there’s no better example than the uses being found for it in healthcare.
Amino
Get access to information you can’t find anywhere else—from cost estimates at facilities to detailed stats about every doctor in America. Amino is a quick and easy way to find and book the right care at the right price.
Calico
Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.
CancerLinQ
Working to improve the quality and value of care for all patients, CancerLinQ® connects cancer care team members, researchers and sponsors with real-world cancer data.
Castlight
Our mission is to empower people to make the best choices for their health, and help companies make the most out of their health benefits.
DeepMind
DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact. We’re on a scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. If we’re successful, we believe this will be one of the most important and widely beneficial scientific advances ever made, increasing our capacity to understand the mysteries of the universe and to tackle some of our most pressing real-world challenges.
Flatiron Health
Harnessing the power of real-world data to accelerate cancer research and improve treatment options.
HealthSparq
At HealthSparq, we empower people to make smarter health care choices by partnering with health plans to provide members with cost and quality information about doctors, hospitals and medical services, based on their individual benefits.
Human API
Get health data from everywhere. Real-time access to digital, structured health and medical data from providers, labs, pharmacies, devices and apps.
Iodine
Wondering what to expect from your medication? We‘re here to help. Iodine combines pharmacist expertise, FDA data, and real life experience from more than 100,000 people like you to create a new kind of medical resource. Let us know what you think
Surgeon Scorecard
Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health, age and hospital quality. Use this database to know more about a surgeon before your operation.
Verily
Verily lives at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. Our mission is to make the world's health data useful so that people enjoy healthier lives.
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