From targeted ads to Netflix, if there’s one thing big data has taught us, it’s that creatively mining information can offer insights that increase efficiency and improve outcomes.
The healthcare industry presents one of big data’s greatest opportunities, with an estimated 2,314 exabytes (one exabyte = one billion gigabytes) of health data expected to be produced annually by 2020. That’s an astronomical amount of information, and it undoubtedly holds valuable insights that could drastically improve patient care.
