Healthcare IT News September 1, 2017
Today’s technologies are not going to cut it in a big data future, the analyst firm said, but major IT vendors are ramping up their focus on healthcare. With the data mining skills of Apple, IBM and Google, there is increased hope that their entrance into the healthcare market will help realize the industry goal of turning EMR data into actionable Big Data insights,” said Bruce Carlson, publisher of Kalorama Information.
Big data: There’s an abundance of excitement yet so few practical applications deployed in healthcare today.
The current fistful of overarching industry trends — precision medicine, population health, next-generation EHRs and value-based care among those — is creating enormous opportunities for traditional and new health IT vendors to serve...