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Healthcare Analytics: Market Growth Charges Forward Despite Adoption Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

The global healthcare analytics market is expected to grow 26.5 percent annually over the next five years, reaching $18.7 billion in 2020, according to market research company MarketsandMarkets.  A competing report by BCC Research has similar findings, estimating that the

Health Care Informatics: Big Data Analytics has Potential to Improve Both Decisions and Operations

By Dick Weisinger

96 percent of health care clinicians, researchers and administrators said they’re already using big data and complex algorithmic models to help them make informed medical decisions, according to the results of a new survey.  That’s a surprisingly large number!  And reports

Health Care in the Cloud: Despite Security Concerns, Early Cloud Use Widespread

By Dick Weisinger

Health care organizations say that they already are significantly using the cloud, based on a cloud survey by HIMSS.  Although 75 percent of organizations surveyed said that they preferred using a private or hybrid cloud. 83 percent say that they

Open Data and Health Care: Medicaid and Drug Interaction Databases Released

By Dick Weisinger

While the US Federal government may not be moving as quickly as many would like to see in releasing Open Data sets, the FDA earlier this month released a four million record data set of information about drug and medication

Big Data and Federal Health Care: Data Analytics can be More Powerful than Penicillin

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data technologies are slowing being rolled out and experimented with by federal health care agencies to help improve patient care. Steve O’Keeffe, founder of MeriTalk, said that “forty-seven percent of ‘feds’ say the successful use of mHealth technologies and