May 14 : Research

Big Data in Healthcare Research (californiahealthline.org)

Collecting and manipulating enormous amounts of data soon will begin to play a vital role in research and delivery of health care, according to California leaders of the "big data" movement. "You're starting to see a crescendo of big data efforts and that's sharply increasing awareness of what that can mean in health care," said David Haussler, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UC-Santa Cruz. read more

Jan 25 : Healthcare

Big Data delivers deep views of patients for better care (forbes.com)

Big Data has arrived st Seton Health Care Family, fortunately accompanied by an analytics tool that will help deal with the complexity of more than two million patient contacts a year, usually attended by dozens of existing patient record pages and generating more with each visit — some electronic, many notes in phyiscian’s infamous handwriting, some transcribed from dictation and others jotted down on X-rays. read more