When it’s big enough, an event itself can be Big Data. Bring together over 40,000 attendees and over 1,200 leading vendors and the topics presented and discussed serve to spell out the current trends … [Read more...]
Twitter Data: Springing Into Real-Time Insights
It’s finally Spring, even in Boston, and our yard is atwitter. Birds are tweeting from the dogwood tree and yew hedge while waiting their turn to grab sunflower seed from the feeder. Our backyard … [Read more...]
A Revolutionary Smash Up: Precision Medicine
Did you watch the Grammy’s last week? One highlight was the performance from Hamilton, the popular, new Broadway musical about America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Playwright Lin-Manuel … [Read more...]
Data Lakes: Data Storage for a Health Care Revolution
I’m sure you’ve heard about our Wicked Winter in Boston. The snowfall this past weekend pushed the Boston total to 108.6 inches, or over 9 feet of snow. Nudging the winter of 1995-96 from first place, … [Read more...]
Open Payments: CMS Data Makes Headlines
Were you watching last week when the most eligible bachelor in the world got married? The $13 million George Clooney wedding generated the expected hoopla, with crowds of boats churning the canals of … [Read more...]
The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: A Valuable Data Pool
Dive into the clear blue. The pool is full of warm water molecules aggregated to suspend your body and create a swimmable fluid. This is not a puddle-jumping experience, with many small pools of water … [Read more...]
Highlights from the eHealth Initiative National Forum on Data & Analytics
eHealth Initiative (eHI) is a nonprofit group in Washington, DC that works to improve Health Information Technology (HIT) through stakeholder networking and advancing the national HIT dialogue. The … [Read more...]