Big Data news and information

The promise of big data in healthcare—increased efficiencies, better outcomes, more personalized care—is undeniable. How the industry reaches the promised land will happen in many stages, but hospitals and insurers aren't wasting any time getting started.
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It's hard to see the future of medicine through the scabs, blisters and scars that torment 7-year-old Charlie Knuth , but the boy from Appleton, Wis., is helping doctors perfect a pioneering intervention called gene editing, a procedure that could lend hope to thousands of people suffering from...
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Four charitable foundations in healthcare and one in journalism will participate in a $2 million contest to spark innovative uses of healthcare data.
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When Dr. Anil Jain was an undergraduate in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, he got a glimpse of his future in medical informatics.
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Genome sequencing data to be used in Alzheimer's research will soon be made available to scientists worldwide, courtesy of the disease's first "big data” project undertaken by the Alzheimer's Association and the Brin Wojcicki Foundation.
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Approaches to big data, data analytics and business intelligence dominated the discussions during Thursday's sessions of the 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif.
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Of all the companies that specialize in big data analytics, the real pioneer (at scale) has always been SAS—headquartered in Cary, N.C. In a big, bold bet on moving one of the larger needles in healthcare, SAS announced a collaborative effort with drug giant GlaxoSmithKline aimed squarely at...
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The era of big data is approaching. It's hard to overestimate its potential for revolutionizing the practice of medicine.
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Four healthcare systems and technology giant IBM have joined the Premier healthcare alliance in a data analytics venture, making the second announcement this week of healthcare providers going in with a big-data partner.
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Partners HealthCare System has joined with the investment arms of Kaiser Permanente and Indiana University in an $8 million equity placement in a Utah data warehousing and analytics firm, Health Catalyst, reflecting what some predict will be the next big category in health information technology...
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