Although the cost-saving benefits of the Affordable Care Act may not be realized anytime soon, some new tools and strategies are being employed to help bring down the costs of healthcare now. And Big Data analytics is one of those tools. Enabling healthcare professionals to capture and analyze mountains of digitized healthcare data to obtain new insights, Big Data cloud … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Big Data is Reducing Healthcare Costs
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How Big Data Analytics On Twitter Can Help Predict Disease Spread
Social networks have become so common in our lives that we post everything on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. As such we also post how we feel and if we feel sick. Researchers at the University of Rochester  have now been able to use Twitter to predict how likely it is for a Twitter user to become sick. In the following video they show how they use Twitter to model how other … [Read more...] about How Big Data Analytics On Twitter Can Help Predict Disease Spread
Three Innovative Ways How Big Data Will Improve the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare is rapidly becoming another digitized industry that will generate vast amounts of data that can be analysed. Taking into account that a fully sequenced human genome accounts for 100 gigabyte of raw data, it may be clear that the healthcare industry will generate vast amounts of data in the coming years. All that data can be analysed to create tailored medicines, … [Read more...] about Three Innovative Ways How Big Data Will Improve the Healthcare Industry
The Surprising Effects Of Global Health Data – Video
The biggest problem in Global Health Data is that the data they are looking for is not available. It is unknown which clinics in the developing world have which and how many medicines. It is unknown how many children were born or died in Bolivia, Botswana or Butan. It is unknown what the needs of the elderly are, basically they know nothing because the IT systems to find the … [Read more...] about The Surprising Effects Of Global Health Data – Video
Big Data will transform healthcare – Infographic
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