Becker's Healthcare October 18, 2023
Giles Bruce

While hospitals collect massive amounts of data, 97% of it goes unused, according to Microsoft.

The World Economic Forum estimates that hospitals produce an estimated 50 petabytes of data annually — roughly the equivalent of 10 billion music files — but don’t do anything with all but 3% of it, a Microsoft executive wrote in the Oct. 10 blog post.

So the tech giant created a healthcare-specific data analytics platform with Microsoft Fabric to tap clinical insights from all that “locked away” information. Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine is one of the first U.S. clients, planning to...

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