Forbes June 30, 2019
Stewart Southey

‘Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink’ -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1834).

We are facing an informational deluge in Medicine. The amount of healthcare, biomedical and social research data being collected doubles every 12-14 months and, in 2012, a Ponemon Institute study found that thirty percent of all the electronic data storage in the world was occupied by the healthcare industry. Our ability to structure, access, interpret and derive value from data is becoming increasingly more difficult. It is expanding exponentially in volume and also in complexity.

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR), Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, Electronic Prescribing Platforms and Messaging protocols all contribute to the ocean of information through which users need to...

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