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Healthcare industry sees big data as more than a bandage
By CIO | August 06, 2013
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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Informatics helps docs unlock medical mysteries in mounds of data
By Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | August 05, 2013
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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Foundations offer $2 million challenge for innovative use of health data
By Joseph Conn | August 01, 2013
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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Forget the cloud. Jain wants more down-to-earth term for one of IT's biggest trends
By Joseph Conn | August 01, 2013
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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Whole genome sequences to be shared in 'big data' Alzheimer's project
By Rachel Landen | July 12, 2013
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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Experts offer big picture on big data
By Joseph Conn | June 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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SAS, GSK pull big pharma into big data collaboration
By Forbes | June 28, 2013
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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Big data and big government | Strong federal role needed to organize productive use of patient data
By Merrill Goozner | June 22, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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 health systems, IBM join Premier data analytics venture
By Joseph Conn | June 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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 invests in big data analytics firm
By Joseph Conn | June 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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