HIMSS July 21, 2020
The information ecosystem is growing at unprecedented speed, and technologies with advanced capabilities to track and assess that information are multiplying. Smartphones. Wearables. Connected medical devices. All of these innovations harness the power to transform health outcomes; all require constant data collection and submission to do so.
Welcome to the world of big data.
Breaking Down Big Data in Healthcare
In a report on big data in healthcare from Healthbox, experts shared their insights on how to break through the noise in a health ecosystem swelling with more data than ever before. The report noted that the term ‘big data’ was originally coined in the 1990s to describe data sets too large or complex for traditional databases to handle.
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