Big Data Underpins Five Health IT Predictions for 2015
EHR Intelligence December 3, 2014
These five health IT predictions for the coming year pin their hopes on the potential of big data to support healthcare reform.
In 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) put a strong stake in the health IT landscape, shifting critical healthcare conversations from simple theory to reality. Today, all healthcare stakeholders — providers, payers and technology vendors — are getting serious about making healthcare delivery more efficient and more effective. Even the big tech players like Apple, Oracle, and IBM have joined the “fix healthcare parade,” all having made major moves in healthcare this year.
One area of health IT that really took off this past year is big data. There is a growing thirst for quality, fact-based information in...