How to open an industry: data points from Strata Rx
O’Reilly’s first conference devoted to health care, Strata Rx, wrapped up earlier this week. Despite competing with at least three other conferences being held on the same week around the country on...
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DocGraph: Open social doctor data
Notice, October 2015: Certain versions of this data have been retracted. Please read more here. At Strata RX in October I announced the availability of DocGraph. This is the first project of NotOnly...
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Approaching ethics and big data
The other day I clicked on a message posted to the O’Reilly editors’ email list and the message text filled up almost the entire monitor screen. I must admit that I thought “Am I going to require...
View ArticlePreferred structures for cleaned-up doctor data
The DocGraph project has an interesting issue that I think will become a common one as the open data movement continues. For those that have not been keeping up, DocGraph was announced at Strata RX,...
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Not just big data, but better data
I was honored to chair O’Reilly’s inaugural edition of Strata Rx, our conference on data science in health care, this past October along with Colin Hill. As we’re beginning to plan this year’s event, I...
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Making government health data personal again
Health care data liquidity (the ability of data to move freely and securely through the system) is an increasingly crucial topic in the era of big data. Most conversations about data liquidity focus on...
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Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)
The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of...
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Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an...
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Big Data systems are making a difference in the fight against cancer
As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use them to “work on stuff that matters”. Along those lines,...
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The democratization of medical science
Vinod Khosla has stirred up some controversy in the healthcare community over the last several years by suggesting that computers might be able to provide better care than doctors. This includes...
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