Big data, digital tools are great, but building their ecosystem is ‘where the rubber meets the road’

The advent of big data and various connected health devices promise countless advantages to the healthcare industry. As facilitators of the personalized health movement, each represents an opportunity to extend care beyond the doctor’s office and into the realms of genomic insights and social or behavioral influences on health, Dr. Lynda Chin, executive director of real-world education, detection and intervention at the University of Texas System, said today at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston.

On their own, however, these groundbreaking tools do little to...