Why data is the key to better medicine — and maybe a cure for cancer

What’s possible when smart people have access to good data?

The health care industry might have embraced the big data movement with open arms, but embracing it with open data probably would be more effective. Hospital organizations, researchers and the tech companies serving them have lots of great ideas — and have achieved some great results, too — but, ultimately, efforts to use big data to transform the industry will only be as good as the data these stakeholders have to work with. Right now, that isn’t always everything they need.

By Derrick Harris

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/why-data-is-the-key-to-better-medicine–and-maybe-a-cure-for-cancer/2012/11/28/d16186da-3908-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html

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Big Data is key but companies should first look at their internal data and apply business analytics to improve processes by making better decisions. Inteneo Systems http://www.inteneosystems.com