Strata Week: When will big data outgrow our current metric system?
Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Bigger and bigger … and bigger … big data MIT Technology Review’s business editor Jessica Leber reports this week on a...
View ArticlePersonal data ownership drives market transparency and empowers consumers
On Monday morning, the Obama administration launched a new community focused on consumer data at Data.gov. While there was no new data to be found among the 507 datasets listed there, it was the first...
View ArticleMoving to the open health-care graph
To achieve the the triple aim in healthcare (better, cheaper, and safer), we are going to need intensive monitoring and measurement of specific doctors, hospitals, labs and countless other clinical...
View ArticleFinding the Meaning in “Meaningful Use”
Ever wonder what the heck “meaningful use” really means? By now, you’ve probably heard it come up in discussions of healthcare data. You might even know that it specifically pertains to electronic...
View ArticleCommodity data analytics for health care
Analytics are expensive and labor intensive; we need them to be routine and ubiquitous. I complained earlier this year that analytics are hard for health care providers to muster because there’s a...
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