By George Leopold: Unstructured data is estimated to account for nearly 80 percent of health care information, a hodge-podge of physicians’ notes, sensor data from medical devices, lab results, X-ray and MRI images along with clinical and financial data. Add to the mix several layers of patient privacy and medical IT regulations and you get […]
By George Leopold A pending Defense Department solicitation for a massive health care management system is touching off a scramble among federal contractors and medical IT specialists who would have to find ways to apply data analytics techniques to a huge Pentagon health records database. The massive military program called Department of Defense Healthcare Management […]
Hospitals have been using data warehouse software for decades, but such systems are difficult to tune for healthcare data, which is constantly changing. They fail to integrate and assimilate information in a timely manner, which can lead to unnecessary treatments or diagnostics. This can be troublesome as Medicare and Medicaid shifts from reimbursing hospitals based […]
By Jim Walker. With a single observation in early 2011, the Hadoop strategy at UC Irvine Medical Center started. While using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo we came to the conclusion that healthcare data although domain specific is structurally not much different than a tweet, Facebook posting or LinkedIn profile and that the environment powering […]
By Michael Hickins Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game Tuesday is an opportunity for the sport to showcase its biggest and brightest stars. Arguing the merits of the game’s greatest players is a tradition as old as Walter Johnson versus Christy Mathewson, Mickey Mantle versus Willie Mays, and Bryce Harper versus Mike Trout. Perhaps as soon […]
By Steve Rosenbush: Royal Dutch Shell plc is finishing a trial of next-generation database technology and plans this year to begin deployment of the software throughout its business, a sign that advanced computing is moving ever-deeper into the corporate mainstream. Shell is currently in the midst of a trial of SAP AG ’s HANA database […]
By Clint Boulton: One analyst believes Big Data — analytics software that parses large amounts of data for potentially useful business information — has fallen into the “trough of disillusionment,” a lull in the technology’s progression. Gartner Inc. said that Big Data has fallen into a “trough of disillusionment,” due to its complexity. The research […]
Big Data Analytics, Turning Big Data into Money-by Frank J. Ohlhorst Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics […]
Ian Armas Foster The financial sector has woven big data analysis seamlessly into its operation. Scientific research has benefited from an open source aspect of sharing big data to the cloud, helping to prompt the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Yet for some reason, the healthcare industry falls behind its financial and scientific counterparts so […]
By Clint Boultin and Michael Hickins : Analytic software vendorMapR Technologies this week raised $30 million, ust one sign that companies both large and small are exploring new ways of analyzing business and customer data in order to find a new edge in the market. But the use of Hadoop, an open source software framework MapR […]
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