_____________________________________________________________________ By Nora Goebelbecker, Candidate for Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning, Georgetown University & Carey Anne Nadeau, Founder & CEO, Open Data Nation March 2016 One out of every 6 Americans get sick from a foodborne illness each year according to the Center for Disease Control. A revolutionary, data-driven…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ By Dmitri Adler, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Data Society In 1970, cancer was the second-leading cause of death in the United States. President Nixon made fighting this disease a priority in his 1971 State of the Union address: “I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ As part of our ongoing series on big data in health care, we spoke with Bonnie Westra, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FACMI, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Nursing Informatics, at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Dr. Westra is also a member of the Institute for Health Informatics…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ By Murray Aitken, Executive Director, IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics Editor’s Note: As part of our series on big data in health care, we are pleased to bring you the following summary of a report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a division of IMS Health that provides…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ For the latest installment in our series on Big Data & Health Care, we sat down with Dr. Hallie Prescott to discuss the use of structured data and unstructured data in continuously learning health systems. Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, is Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine in the Division of…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ Our series on Big Data in Health Care continues this week with a conversation with Dr. Philip Bourne, Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bourne discusses the goals of the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program and the challenges faced in leveraging big data…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ By Cameron Warren and Merav Yuravlivker The term “Big Data” is increasingly used in our everyday lives. But each mention of it means something different, unique to what we use it for…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ Welcome to 2016! The staff and sponsors of Real World Health Care wish you all a Happy & Healthy New Year. We look forward to another year of sharing ideas and insights from researchers on the forefront of real-world medical breakthroughs. Next week, we’ll be kicking off a new…more.
_____________________________________________________________________ By Emily Burke, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum Development, BiotechPrimer Inc. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is reprinted with permission from BioTechPrimer.com. During President Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this year, a cystic fibrosis patient named Bill Elder sat beside First Lady Michelle Obama. Diagnosed with the disease at 8…more.
_______________________________________________________________ Real World Health Care recently sat down with Dr. Razelle Kurzrock, Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy & Clinical Trials Office, University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, to discuss the present state and future direction of genomics and immunotherapy. Real World Health Care: Why was the Center…more.
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