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How one app helped 50,000 women get pregnant

Almost everyone over the age of 12 knows how babies are made. But big data is changing even that in a big way. At the very least, it’s making the process of getting pregnant a lot more predictable. Today, Ovuline announced that more than 50,000 women have used its...

Big Data Crushes Anti-Vaccination Movement
Big Data Crushes Anti-Vaccination Movement

For years it’s been relatively easy to ignite medical controversy with emotional (but often anecdotal) evidence. TV is a popular format for doing just that. It’s quick, colorful and dramatic (and increasingly in high-def and big-screen). Add a well known celebrity (or...

Big Data: The Key To Better Health Care?

The discussion about how to fix health care in America shouldn't focus on websites or servers or insurance mandates or policies. It should focus on better data analytics. That's according to a panel of experts who spoke Tuesday at the TechAmerica Foundation's Big Data...

Visualizing the Big Data of Breast Cancer
Visualizing the Big Data of Breast Cancer

A colorful wheel developed by Rice University bioengineers to visualize protein interactions has won an international competition for novel strategies to study the roots of breast cancer. The winning BioWheel by the Rice lab of bioengineer Amina Qutub was chosen this...

Why big data has so far failed medicine

Can big data improve human decision-making? That was the question that MIT's Irving Wladawsky-Berger put to a panel of IBM clients at the company's research colloquium on cognitive computing Wednesday. The meat of his discussion focused on Douglas Johnston, a surgeon...

Clinical data analytics next big thing
Clinical data analytics next big thing

The clinical data analytics market is about to get red hot. With the shift toward new payment models and the sheer amount of clinical data contained in electronic health records, more and more healthcare groups are looking to analytics solutions for population health...