big data

A new study found that many emergency department patients are willing to share both their health and search data, and that their search behaviors often change in the days leading up to presentation.

As the patient moves into the consumer role in healthcare, more questions emerge around their role in data exchange.

Social determinants of health, platform plays, and big data were three standout trends.

John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Paul Cerrato, Contributing Writer, Medscape, Medpage Today, discuss how AI and big data can help make personalized medicine a reality.

Douglas Gentile, Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Vermont Health Network, discusses how lessons learned from past failures helped his organization figure out four critical components needed for successful data governance.

When taking on data governance projects, David Kho, Chief Medical Information and Chief Digital Officer of ChenMed, says it's critical to consider data quality, consistency, standards and lineage.

Speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, University of Texas System's Dr. Lynda Chin stressed the importance of connecting new technologies in addressing healthcare's failings. 

Iomed Medical Solution CEO Javier de Oca is in the business of generating data specific databases for health systems and believes the time is now to see that data translate into better patient outcomes and sustainable systems for providers.

Palantir, which is best known for its work in other industries, will deploy software able to automatically aggregate research data from public and private sources into a single interface.

Current efforts to create interoperability mostly focus on clinical, not research, use cases.