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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

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