Healthcare Scene’s recent Boston conference, EXPO.health, walked the audience through numerous innovations in health IT, especially where analytics give...
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What data from social media can help healthcare organizations? One of the biggest challenges of online and social data is the sheer volume of unstructured data...
The previous part of this article raised the question of whether data brokering in health care is responsible for raising or lower costs. My argument that it...
The previous part of this article summarized the evolution of data brokering in patient information and how it was justified ethically and legally, partly...
A lot of people are feeling that major institutions of our time have been compromised, hijacked, or perverted in some way: journalism, social media, even...
The promise of device data pervades the health care field. It’s intrinsic to patient-centered medical homes, it beckons clinicians who are enamored with hopes...
Previous segments of this article explained what makes data sharing difficult in four major areas of Internet data: money, personal data, media content, and...
Previous segments of this article (parts 1 and 2) have explored the special characteristics of various types of data shared on the Internet. This one will look...
When people run out of new things to say in the field of health IT, they utter the canard, “Why can’t exchanging patient data be as easy as...
Analytics can play many roles, big and small, in streamlining health care. Data crunching may uncover headline-making revelations such as the role smoking...
