Health IT Analytics December 1, 2014
2015 won’t just be the year of wearable devices and big data: it will also be the year of data standards and interoperability.
Predictive analytics, wearable devices, mHealth, and aggregation of big data through the “Internet of Things” are among the biggest technologies that will continue to revolutionize not only healthcare, but the rest of our data-driven society in 2015 and beyond, according to IEEE Computer Society’s end-of-the-year predictions. The rapid proliferation of data, which will stream through a number of interconnected, interoperable devices, will demand an increased focus on data standards to enable a rich portrait of health and wellness while predicting future developments with robust analytics.
“The time is right for wearable devices,” the list proclaims, as tech...