
@ShahidNShah
Having recently spoken at about a half dozen conferences on the subject of big data in government and healthcare I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re focusing, at least in healthcare, on the wrong topic. When we’re dealing with individual patients, and even population health across multiple patients, the size and velocity of the data (“big data”) isn’t anywhere near as important as “actionable data” or “useful data” – by focusing on, and frankly scaring people with, the term “big data” we’re undermining the potential immediate utility of all kinds of “small data”.
I’ve made suggestions to conference organizers to consider moving their terminology from “big data” to ‘practical data’, ‘actionable data’, or ‘useful data’, especially in the healthcare sector where a lot of the data that we have these days is not actionable yet.
Giving the amount of imaging, natural language, retrospective documentation, and other data we have in healthcare it would seem we could immediately start using “big data” tools but that’s not quite the case.
If you’re a conference organizer, I’d love to see the following topics / tracks covered soon:
What else would you like to see from ‘big data in healthcare’ conferences?
Shahid Shah is an internationally recognized enterprise software guru that specializes in digital health with an emphasis on e-health, EHR/EMR, big data, iOT, data interoperability, med device connectivity, and bioinformatics.
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