ONC chief Karen DeSalvo said it’s time for ONC to drive healthcare beyond the meaningful use of electronic health records toward the use of big data.“We have done a great job in the past ten years to get where we are, but I am really excited about the next decade to advance this notion to get data beyond meaningful use […]
One part of the market has held on, another part seems to be falling apart.
Over the last month or so the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials have essentially moved sideways, but the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 have clearly trended lower.
Tech stocks, and specifically biotech stocks, have really taken a beating. However, there has been a slight recovery over the […]
Drivers of Consumer Demand
Are we headed for another 2000 or 2007 type correction? While we do not expect a selloff of that magnitude, we are concerned that the stock market has gotten ahead of the economic fundamentals. Last year, S&P 500 went up by over 30%, while the U.S. GDP only grew by 1.9% in real terms. We expect the […]
Analytics Engines — a Belfast-based company that has developed a suite of plug-in ‘software accelerators’ allowing for complex analytics and real-time processing of Big Data in finance, genomics, and utilities — has closed a $1.6m/£1m funding round. The investment will be used to speed up productisation and exploitation of IP, and expand the company’s global footprint. The company has partnered […]
SharePinterestFacebookEmailOver the last month, Obamacare has taken many shots from its opposition. The CBO released a damaging report on how the law will affect employment over the coming years, and numerous stories detailing how the healthcare law has negatively impact Americans have continued to surface.Now, with President Obama’s approval numbers slipping, we looked at the recent perception on social media […]
The Bitcoin Center of New York City (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) – The U.S. stock market is ending slightly lower after a choppy day of trading. Major indexes moved between small gains and losses for much of the day Tuesday, then drifted steadily lower in the last hour of trading. Traders were discouraged by a surprisingly large drop in consumer […]
Merger and acquisition activities and a rally in health insurers took benchmarks to their record highs on Monday. A buoyant German confidence report also had a positive impact on the markets. The benchmarks ended in the green with the S&P 500 briefly reaching its all-time high. The Nasdaq ended the day at a fourteen-year high.For a look at the issues […]
Big Data, capitalized for emphasis and hype, is all the rage in every industry. Healthcare is no exception. Companies and investors are betting big on the power of data. Healthcare produces a lot of data that is growing exponentially, so it’s ripe for reaping the benefits of its unification and analysis. I’ve heard a lot of descriptions for Big Data. […]
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Part two of an interview series with Mark Braunstein, Director of the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech, and columnist at InformationWeek. A decade or so ago only a very few professionals used the term Logistics, yet it very quickly moved from an IT and Operations handle into the boardroom. Dr. Braunstein explains how data logistics […]
The Big Data landscape continued to explode in 2013, as companies across the board scrambled to update infrastructure and technology to meet the new set of demands and opportunities brought on by a brave new, data-happy world. Investors responded in kind, pouring just over $3.6 billion into the Big Data ecosystem during the year, setting off a flurry of activity […]
