Big data has taken the health care industry by storm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that 54 percent of all US physicians had begun digitizing patient records as of 2011. Meanwhile, over the last decade, pharmaceutical companies have been aggregating years of research and data into medical databases. The influx of data creates massive potential for industry wide improvements; it also introduces new risks around data security and patient privacy…
While some health experts argue the benefits of electronic health records outweigh the risks, patient privacy rights activists argue that there may be dangerous unforeseen consequences to the move towards digital health records.
As frustrations mount over current health care policy legislation, consumers turn to a non-traditional approach to a longstanding problem. A look into some health care tracking devices.
Industry experts define Big Data in health care and provide insight into how new technology is on track to transform traditional health care.
Members of the health care community, including patient privacy advocates, address health information data ownership issues.
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