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The Value of Data

April 15, 2015 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Patient Records by ken fager on flickr

Health care is in danger of missing the point. (A repost from 2014 that’s relevant today thanks to announcements at HIMSS.) In 1999, when I was the editor of USNews.com, the dot-com boom was in full swing. Money seemed to be gushing out of the Bay Area and some sharpies at U.S.News saw an opportunity […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, health data, medical records, trends & principles Tagged With: big data, E-Patient Dave, Health Data, Health Data Rights, Health Datapalooza, John Halamka, Paul Levy, SMARTHealthIT

Recognizing the value of data

May 30, 2014 By Susannah Fox 42 Comments

In 1999, when I was the editor of USNews.com, the dot-com boom was in full swing. Money seemed to be gushing out of the Bay Area and some sharpies at USNews saw an opportunity to cash in. They proposed slicing out the most marketable piece of the website — the education franchise — and selling […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, medical records, trends & principles Tagged With: big data, cdc, E-Patient Dave, Epic, Health Datapalooza, John Halamka, John Moore, Paul Levy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SMARTHealthIT, USNews, VentureBeat

Big (really big) data comes to health care

March 4, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

In December 2013, Kira Peikoff wrote about how, when she had her DNA tested by three direct-to-consumer companies, the results were all over the place. She interviewed experts to get their advice: J. Craig Venter, chief executive of his namesake institute and of Synthetic Genomics, was a pioneer in sequencing the human genome in 2000. Though […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: big data, genomics, Quantified Self, Tracking for Health

Big data, red flags, better health?

May 8, 2013 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

A new interview with Stephen Wolfram on “why he thinks your life should be measured, analyzed, and improved” popped up on the same day that American Medical News ran a story advising clinicians to look for “red flags” like unfilled prescriptions and delayed screenings since it may mean the patient has lost their job or […]

Filed Under: ethics, medical records, trends & principles Tagged With: #whatifhc, big data, Quantified Self, Stephen Wolfram

Thinking critically about Big Data and health care

December 30, 2012 By Susannah Fox 30 Comments

If the health geek tribe had its own “Most Viewed” ranking on the New York Times site today, “Big Data is Great. But So Is Intuition” by Steve Lohr would be near the top. Everyone I respect (who’s awake, reading, and sharing) is tweeting about it. Lohr writes: Big Data proponents point to the Internet […]

Filed Under: research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: big data

Watson: a love story

June 11, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Before you read this post, think of a time when you had a crush on someone. Think about that swirl of emotions, the highs and the lows. That’s where I was a couple weeks ago, except it wasn’t about a person. I fell hard for Watson, IBM’s hot new outboard brain. I’d heard he was […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, shared decision making Tagged With: big data

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