Executive Briefings | June 27, 2013
Big Data Gets Practical
"Big data" just seems so big. Can it really change – and improve – health care at the individual consumer level? And, how does that work?
Earlier this week, I mentioned the three factors that make the difference between "little data" (my term for the data that exists in any individual organization’s enterprise systems) and "big data"– velocity, volume, and variety (see 'Big Data' For Dummies all members). It is that relatively automated combination of previously unlinked data sets that facilitates new findings . . .