"The age of data-driven medicine"

Tips to leverage Big Data in medicine

Understand what type of data you have and where it is stored:

Valuable data can
be found in databases that hold employee information, patient level transactions or other
medical-encounter data, or even time-stamped data giving a patient’s current location (are
they in the operating theater?), etc.

Transform data into the right format and start a basic transformation: The data needs
to be extracted from its at source systems and reworked into a usable format that is common
across participating institutions. This allows hospitals to compare and benchmark datasets,
cleaning the data to remove and correct it ready for the intricacies of the hospital’s operating
environment.

Perform analytics on the datasets: Big Data analytics need to go beyond Excel and
Access. Big Data analytics requires industrial grade technology that does not run on a laptop.

Hospitals need to step away from the retrospective analysis they are used to and choose an IT
partner that has expertise in predictive modeling.

Give the data to the decision-makers: What good is the data if the execs don’t get it?

Hospital executives need the data presented to them in a clear and recognizable format and
in the way that is in step with their management.

Full Report: http://datascienceseries.com/assets/blog/The_Age_of_Data-Driven_Medicine.pdf

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