When it comes to health care, testing is not what it used to be, or what it is going to be in the not-too-distant future. For example, confirmation of a cancer diagnosis is getting much easier. The New York Times reported that blood tests -- known as "liquid biopsies" -- have now been shown to generally match the results of a tumor biopsy. The blood tests look for DNA fragments from the tumor that signal its presence. The liquid biopsies are useful for both detecting the presence of a tumor and its ongoing monitoring. The current generation of tests are not perfect, with as many as 15% of tumors not generating enough DNA to be detected, but they do offer the advantage of not requiring an invasive procedure...
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The NSA And Big Data: What IT Can Learn
Kurt Marko | InformationWeek | July 22, 2013
Enterprises can put the tools Big Brother uses to analyze our online activities to productive use. Here's how. Read More »
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The Open Medicine Foundation Awarded Grant From The VMware Foundation To Accelerate Development Of Patient-Centric Health Care Model
Press Release |
Open Medicine Institute (OMI) |
May 14, 2013
The Open Medicine Institute (OMI), an organization with a mission to improve health care by applying a multi-disciplinary, "big data" approach, today announced that the Open Medicine Foundation (nonprofit 501(c)(3)), has been awarded a grant from the VMware Foundation. Read More »
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The Open-Source Answer to Big Data
Brian Bloom | PCWorld | May 29, 2012
Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout. Read More »
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The Quality of Open Source Code Increases Adoption
Jason Hibbets | OpenSource.com | June 19, 2012
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) attendees are not only learning about new trends in open source, but also hearing the results of the Future of Open Source Software Survey. The survey results were announced during a panel discussion of experts led by Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners. Read More »
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The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Healthcare Experience: Mobile
By Dr. Bonnie Feldman | December 30, 2013
Cheaper, faster, better technology is enabling nearly one in four people around the world to connect with each other anytime, anywhere, as online social networks have changed the way we live, work and play. In healthcare, the data generated by mobile phones and sensors can give us new information about ourselves, extend the reach of our healers and help to accelerate a societal shift towards greater personal engagement in healthcare. Read More »
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This Actually Is a Test
By Kim Bellard | June 8, 2016
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Todd Park: President Obama's Tech 'Entrepreneur-In-Residence'
Staff Writer | The Takeaway | February 5, 2013
Congress created the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1976, but Barack Obama was the first president to appoint a White House chief technology officer. In 2012, Todd Park became the second person to hold the position. Read More »
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Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time
Jon Evans | TechCrunch | June 29, 2013
Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA panopticon, the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet conversations and phone metadata are being tracked; the national-security conservatives claim to be worried that terrorists will start hiding their tracks; but both sides should really be worried about different things entirely. Read More »
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Toolkit Designed To Make Biomedical Data Exploration Easier
Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | October 18, 2013
Researchers have developed an open-source platform for creating software applications that make complex data understandable and accessible to those without sophisticated informatics expertise. Read More »
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Top 7 Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
By Robin Muilwijk | June 27, 2016
In this article, I review some of the top open source business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools. In economies where the role of big data and open data are ever-increasing, where do we turn in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers tools which help to solve this problem. Two years ago I wrote about the top three. In this article, I will expand that list with a few more tools that were suggested by our readers. Note that this list is not exhaustive, and it is a mix of both business intelligence and reporting tools...
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Transforming Health Care Through A 360-Degree View Of Data
By Shastri Purushotma | December 22, 2019
How medical care can be substantially improved through a full spectrum view of all factors that affect health was the topic of Payam Etminani's presentation at the 2019 IDGA Veterans Benefits Conference in Washington D.C. Etminani, the CEO of Bitscopic, argued that the ability to view all health data including social, environmental and genomic information in addition to the traditional clinical measures (vital signs, blood work, history of illness etc), would lead to significant improvement in care. Etminani described how recent advances in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) make combining and using these large and widely varied sets of information possible. Read More »
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Travis Oliphant to Discuss the Power of the Python Ecosystem and Open Data Science at TDWI Accelerate Boston
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Continuum Analytics |
March 30, 2017
Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python, today announced that Travis Oliphant, chief data scientist and co-founder, will be speaking at TDWI Accelerate Boston on April 4 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. As one of the leading conferences on Big Data and data science, Accelerate brings together the brightest and best data minds in the industry to discuss the future of data science and analytics...
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Treasure Data's Hiro Yoshikawa: Taking The Open Road With Big Data
Jack M. Germain | Linux Insider | September 10, 2013
"There are four V's of Big Data that are often talked about: velocity, volume, variety and value. There is a fifth V that is often missing in many Big Data projects: viability. A lot of Big Data projects fail because they require too much upfront investment and maintenance. [...]." Read More »
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Trends in Corporate Open Source Engagement
By Nithya A. Ruff | August 12, 2016
In 1998, I was part of SGI when we started moving to open source and open standards, after having been a long-time proprietary company. Since then, other companies also have moved rapidly to working with open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies has skyrocketed over the past few years. Today company involvement in open source technologies is fairly mature and can be seen in the following trends...
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Trusting Healthcare Data
John Lynn | Hospital EMR & EHR | August 9, 2013
Healthcare is generating data at an unprecedented rate. EHR software is becoming a large repository of healthcare data. [...] We’re surrounded by healthcare data. The question is: How do we make sure they trust the data? Read More »
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