This visual gives an idea of how data flows through health-related entities and organizations -- and how big data, when used to its potential, could help improve outcomes and reduce costs.

Far and away, the industry that pops up the most in discussions of big data is health care. It’s not surprising, if you think about it. Lots of disparate sources of data, much of it unstructured.

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Dr. Mark Johannsson, academic dean of the College of Health Professions at University of Phoenix, says the actual power of health-related “Big Data” is not just the data that are collected.

Beyond the opportunities come the obstacles to big data analytics in healthcare. “Data owners, whether they are organizations or individuals, those that are contributing this valuable data that is ...

Big Data has already changed rural economies. The next step, argues Dr. Naveen Rao, is to bring those same approaches to health care.

The benefits of big data-driven continuous healthcare might be most profound for communities that are under-served today by the traditional apparatus of the medical care system.

A lot of discoveries can come from big data, but “We can’t pretend that it’s going to fix health care,” he says. Transactional data can help eliminate fraud, waste and errors, but “it ...

Stefano Bertozzi, dean and professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School Of Public Health, likes to use a slightly different term for the Big Data. He likes to call it, "bigger ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data ...

Big Data pushing democratization of healthcare, ... "By one estimate, AI could help reduce health care costs by $150 billion by 2026 in the U.S. alone," the report says.