Big Data news and information

HIPAA makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data—and then assuring them that it's being properly de-identified—can ease this process.
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At Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, Jeff Hammerbacher, a 30-year-old known for being Facebook's first data scientist, is designing a new computer system. He is applying the same data-crunching techniques used to target online advertisements, but this time for a powerful engine that will...
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The white-hot controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul—grabbing headlines again amid the latest round of budget fights—has largely overshadowed other areas where the administration is crafting health policy, including how to wring more value from the vast...
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A large hospital consortium and two health systems have launched a "big data" pilot project to automatically extract claims and clinical data from their information technology systems.
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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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