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Healthcare IT, Big Data Investments Surge in Q1

Venture capitalists poured more than $1 billion into the healthcare IT sector during the first quarter of 2016 as investors look to target data analytics and telemedicine for growth. The first three months also saw se Read more…

Survey: Big Data Goes Mainstream

Financial services firms remain the biggest users of big data technologies in the most recent survey of adoption rates for Fortune 1000 companies. However, the annual survey by management consultant NewVantage Partner Read more…

Google Is Using Big Data to Debunk Sickness Mysteries

Google has announced a new project called Verily that will use big data to more quickly identify disease and sickness before it becomes a deadly issue for the affected. Unlike other healthcare options, this project aims Read more…

Analytics Startup Looks to Cut Prescription Drug Costs

A big data startup emerging from stealth mode this week is focused on helping company healthcare plans avoid increasingly common price spikes for prescription drugs. Oration, Foster City, Calif., said Wednesday (Dec. Read more…

Blue Cross of Idaho Builds BI Success on a Pyramid

Companies have many options today when it comes to business intelligence applications. When it came time for Blue Cross of Idaho to pick a platform, you may be surprised why it eschewed more popular names in favor of lit Read more…

Using Big Data to Its Full Potential in Healthcare

As the world’s population is living longer, treatment delivery models need to quickly evolve, and many of these changes are being driven by data. The focus now is on understanding as much about a patient as possible, h Read more…

Medical Insight Set to Flow from Semantic Data Lakes

The potential for data analytics to disrupt healthcare delivery is large, and getting larger by the day. But in many cases, the need to hammer data into a structured format creates a barrier to productivity. Now a hospit Read more…

Health Alliance Looks to Leverage, Secure Patient Data

The health care IT sector is attracting major players as companies chasing lucrative government contracts form partnerships that combine big data technologies to improve public health while harnessing advances in genomic Read more…

Saving Children’s Lives with Big Genomics Data

It's estimated than one in 30 children is afflicted by one of 8,000 or so genetic diseases that we have discovered. Thanks to progress in the world of genomic testing—including faster genomic sequencers and better algo Read more…

Health Tracker Said to Spot Ebola Outbreak Before WHO

HealthMap, a web-based utility and algorithm used by public health agencies and others to track disease outbreaks and deliver real-time intelligence about emerging infectious diseases, may have spotted the Ebola outbreak Read more…

Hospitals Use Predictive Analytics to Allocate Resources

Data analytics continues to make inroads in the efficient allocation of expensive healthcare resources. Among the latest examples is the use of predictive analytics at a Texas hospital that has helped reduce its 30-da Read more…

Google Invests $130 Million in Cancer-Fighting Big Data Firm

Flatiron Health, a big data startup specializing in cancer patient data analysis, has attracted a second round of funding from Google Ventures. Google's $130-million investment is the search engine giant's second in F Read more…

Big-Data Backlash: Medical Database Raises Privacy Concerns

A controversial big data initiative designed to create a huge U.S. database of medical records intended to help patients and their doctors make better health care decisions is raising privacy and other ethical concerns. Read more…

Syapse Wins Startup Showcase at Strata Rx

Start-up, Syapse, says that their cloud-based platform is ready to take healthcare past the fax machine era (which they say it’s stuck in now) into a new age, with a system that helps healthcare professionals share and utilize individual patient data. The company won top honors this past week in the Strata Rx Startup Showcase. Read more…

Healthcare Organizations Face Daunting Data Challenges

The healthcare industry is not only awash in data--it’s also inundated with mandates to make better use of that data. And yet, despite the incentives and the opportunity, the healthcare industry is struggling to turn that data into better, more efficient care. In a new report, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) looked into the causes and pointed to possible solutions. Read more…

The Power and Promise of Data Driven Medicine

Big data has the potential to change the way diseases are treated, therapies are developed, and medicine is administered. At Intel’s “Reimagine the Datacenter” event last week, the story of Eric Dishman was told, and the impact that data driven medicine had in his life and recovery. Read more…

Big Data Faces Big Barriers to Adoption in Healthcare

Big data has the capacity to transform how medical care is delivered in this country and around the world, not only in the personal delivery of care, but in how research is conducted. But according to experts in the field, the laws on the books in the United States are hindering the adoption of big data analytics in healthcare. Read more…

Biotech Gets a Boost With New UK Big Data Institute

Big data in biotech got a big boost this month when a partnership between the UK government and Chinese philanthropist Li Ka-Shing converged to drop £30 million on the University of Oxford to fund the creation of the Big Data Institute at the Li Ka Shing Center for Health Information and Discovery. Read more…

Breaching the Big Data Barrier in Healthcare

If medicine is waiting behind the big data barrier, what materials were used to construct that wall? What is the best way to breach it? To answer these questions and more, Forbes brought together a panel of medical experts from across the industry. Read more…

Cellular Data Bites Back at Malaria

In order to really get a handle on a disease, the location and trajectory of an outbreak are paramount, as demonstrated by new research in public health. A group of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health sought to gain insight on the spread of disease by combining big data from cell phone usage with malaria prevalence maps in order to track the movement of the disease in their paper, “Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria.” Read more…

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