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Big data, big brother and now big doctor
Hospital organizations are now using personal data on current and prospective patients to market their services. So if your credit card transactions reveal a predilection for fast food or cigarettes, you may be hearing from your healthcare provider …
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Could Big Data become Big Brother?
… plenty of non-healthcare data is already being used in healthcare today, whether consumers are aware of it or not. A new report by the World Privacy Forum found that healthcare analytics companies are drawing from “a large roster of raw consumer data.
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Making It Personal: Why Everyone Should Care About Big Data
I can't speak for all the other applications of Big Data, but in health care, it holds tremendous promise. It has the potential to impact every person, healthy or sick. Big Data will lead to stunning advances in disease diagnosis and treatment. For …
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