Databricks Launches Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Databricks has announced the launch of its new lakehouse platform, the Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences. According to the company's press release, Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Scie Read more…

Palantir Adds COVID-19 Deal to Growing List of U.S. Contracts

Federal health officials are reportedly using Palantir Technologies’ Gotham big data analytics platform in their efforts to mount a response to COVID-19. Forbes.com reported late last week that a unit within the U.S Read more…

Health Care Emerges as Hadoop Use Case

Unstructured data is estimated to account for nearly 80 percent of health care information, a hodge-podge of physicians' notes, sensor data from medical devices, lab results, X-ray and MRI images along with clinical and Read more…

Mayo Clinic Eyes Data to Improve Health Care

Optum Labs, a health services and technology venture formed by the Mayo Clinic along with one of the nation's largest health care insurers, is analyzing patient data to identify the best treatments, understand variations Read more…

Birth Data Provides New Tools for Fighting Infection

Increasingly robust data sets collected and maintained by medical researchers over the past decade are helping improve the delivery of health care. The latest example comes from healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente's ne Read more…