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What’s the Big Deal About “Big Data”?
In IT speak, “big data” is a term used to describe large and complex data sets that are challenging to work with using the database management tools that are largely available. The difficulties typically include data capture, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization.[read more]
Monthly News Roundup: The Top 5 Stories in Digital Health
We’ve wrangled last month’s top 5 stories at the intersect of health and digital communications — let us know what you find most useful.[read more]
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Barbara Ficarra Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA is an award-winning journalist, media broadcaster, health educator, speaker and consultant More »
David Harlow David Harlow is Prinicipal of the Harlow Group LLC, a healthcare law and consulting firm based in Boston, MA. More »
Stephen Schimpff Stephen C. Schimpff, MD is the retired CEO of the Univ. of MD Med. Center and the COO of the Univ of MD Medical System. More »
Andrew Schorr Andrew, a leukemia survivor and respected medical journalist is the founder of PatientPower, an excellent web resource. More »
John Sharp John Sharp has interests in social media in healthcare and clinical research informatics including secondary use of EMR More »
Christina Thielst Christina Thielst is a hospital administrator, consultant, educator and author with 30 years of healthcare experience. More »
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“Thank you so much for this great and extremely relevant post, Bill. You are so right. I consider myself [fairly] intelligent, and I have a nursing degree and MBA, however, I can make neither head nor tail of any medical bill I receive. Luckily, I am not ill often enough to have to worry about it. But I do really wonder how the average elderly person with even a small ...”
“I downloaded the Caracal Diagnostics for the android and paid $1.99 but it does absolutely nothing. Your thoughts?”