Healthcare Analytics News November 2, 2018
So much is happening in healthcare right now, it is hard to keep track. To get a better understanding of the wave of innovation sweeping through digital health, I would like to share with you five trends that I think are most significant for our future healthcare.
1. Big Data and Predictive Analytics
Big data is booming. From 2015 to 2017, 90 percent of all the worlds data at the time was created. The current output of our data is about 2.5 quintillion bytes a day worldwide.
In healthcare, the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) and electronic health records (EHRs) has been increasing over the past 15 years. EMR adoption has risen from 20 percent in 2001 to 82...