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Big Data and Data Sharing – Going Places?
Several recent publications have focused on big data and data sharing in healthcare for secondary use of EMR data. First, the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced CancerLinQ. CancerLinQ is a proof of concept project which demonstrated the...
Jack Dorsey on Innovation and Life
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, spoke at Cleveland Clinic last night. Certainly a humble guy but also highly focused on using technology to solve problems. Here is the twitter stream from the presentation. Also, check out this cool...
IBM's Super Computer, Watson , Goes to Medical School: Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support
IBM's super computer, Watson, is going to medical school at Cleveland Clinic. What Watson has to bring to medicine is the potential for advanced clinical decision support, specifically algorithm-based, Bayesian decision analysis, rule based and...
Data Mining, Algorithm Medicine and Skeptics
My recent Perspective on iHealthbeat focused on the uses of data mining of EMR data which are yet to be fully exploited. My thoughts were provoked by a New York Times article titled, Mining Electronic Records for Revealing Health Data. ...
The Learning Healthcare System and Order Sets
One of the most powerful concepts in changing healthcare is the Learning Healthcare System explained in most detail in this Institute of Medicine report. The concept of using evidence from research to rapidly into practice in a virtuous cycle. But...
Data Mining as an Essential Informatics Skill Set
Clinical Integrated Data Repositories are now become common at academic medical centers. With tools like i2b2 and RemedyMD, plus a broad range of analytic tools, access to large volumes of clinical data for research and population management is...
Medical Innovation – Big Data and Patient Engagement
At the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, there was a discussion about big data in health care which moved to the issue of patient engagement and the need for not only transparency of data but also providing tools to manage and interpret...
New Book Scheduled for Publication – Wireless Health:Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies
This is a new textbook editted by Mehran Mehregany for the Wireless Health course at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (the course is actually conducted in San Diego). I wrote Chapter 12, Computing and Information, which...
Medical Informatics 2.0
Informatics 2.0 is the title of an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Subtitled, “implications of social media, mobile health, and patient-reported outcomes for healthcare and individual privacy”,...
Conference Season Approaching – Prepare for Landing
While it may not be as exciting as landing on Mars, there are several conferences this Fall worth noting:Medicine 2.0 Boston with over 300 presenters and a wide range of topics from mobile and social media to education and personal monitoring...
Everyone is Talking about Big Data
Several new publications about Big Data in healthcare are showing up with good analysis of this emerging field.First, an article from PharmExec called “Super-Size Me: Optimizing the Information Explosion” which came out in May. They note new...
Eleven Chronic Disease Technologies to Watch
This significant report by NEHI (New England Health Policy Institute) reviews current tech trends which will impact the future of chronic disease management. The report categorizes these technologies into 4 classes based on the significant...
