Partnerships between public health services and big tech will bring new treatments to patients faster. But sharing data is still the big stumbling block.

MEDICAL IMAGING and the 4 V’S When it comes to medical imaging, your body can be considered a source for big data. Medical data stored by hospitals is growing incrementally due to the data stored in ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data ...

Google, Amazon, Apple, and others are all making big plays in healthcare. The key to it all? Your medical data.

Researchers are analyzing pools of patient information collected from routine checkups to help doctors better diagnose their patients. This type of data is easier to mine thanks to the rise in ...

Will Big Data Reduce Medical Errors? —Data analytics offers practical solutions to several problems that have plagued providers for years.

On the Ramifications of High-Tech, Big-Data Medical Care As more of medicine comes into the info age, will we get better sooner? Or simply have a more detailed idea of why we're sick? By James Fallows ...

In Israel, however, some HMOs have digitized extensive data, which has resulted in greater insights into the medical state and history of their patients.

It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.

Medical research is increasingly becoming data-intensive; sensitive data are being re-used, linked and analysed on an unprecedented scale. The current EU data protection law reform has led to an ...