Big Data news and information

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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More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they had agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information.
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In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory—thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to...
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Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.
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"Of all the transformations reshaping American healthcare, none is more profound than the shift toward value.”
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Despite what has so far been an uneven rollout of EHRs in the U.S., doctors are already, in effect, building a treasure trove of patient information that can be tapped to improve patient care, a repository that will revolutionize medicine for decades to come. That is, if everyone can figure out how...
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