KevinMD December 17, 2018
Tara Bishop

When I was in medical school, I didn’t realize the potential data would have in health care. Back then I learned from 1000+ page hardcover textbooks and handwrote notes in paper medical records.

Fast forward twenty years — data and analytics are at the forefront of health care. Other doctors and I now have electronic medical records in the majority of hospitals and medical offices; there are claims data warehouses, and there is a host of other forms of data. Along with this big data, we have ever-evolving ways to analyze and visualize data which enable more precise measurement, the ability to compare, and the opportunity to predict future events and outcomes. According to a McKinsey report, health care analytics...

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