Big Data Is Changing the Way We Get Well

You might call it a revolution, or maybe a remaking, but either way big data is changing the scale and scope of how doctors care for patients and how caregivers and insurance companies address community-wide health issues

Consider the statistics already in play. A recent McKinsey & Company report traced the expansion of computer-based information systems, and the electronic medical records they create, in both the physician's office and the hospital

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  More than 50% of doctor's offices now handle patient records electronically.

  
  


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  Nearly 75% of hospitals do so as well.

  
  


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  45% of hospitals exchange the data they gather with each other on a local and regional level. Read more...

  
  

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