Big data in health care

Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. And the amount of data is ever expanding.  This data…

One aspect in particular that big data can potentially benefit the healthcare industry is through the identification of biomarkers. This will aid the treatment of patients by reducing the number of failed treatments, giving more specificity to the prescription process.…

While the rise in big data generation and availability is exciting, it means relatively little unless one is able to understand and create value from it.  Over the past few years, the value created from big data has continued to…