Much medical data is in text format and is not structured in a way computers can understand.
The public health system makes it simple to get medical data, and public opinion supports the use of it.
Watson will likely be invaluable for integrating new medical data and published content in the medical literature.
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Using predictive data modeling, contestants will examine three years of historical medical data from anonymized real-life people.
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The network routinely reviews policies and considers "public input as well as medical data and experience, " the statement said.
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We are now becoming capable of doing the same for vital medical data, and not just by creating new drugs.
The U.K.'s cradle-to-grave national health service is a gold mine of medical data, encompassing everything from prescriptions to cancer outcomes.
Critics contend that UPIs will only make it easier for companies and others to use medical data for commercial purposes.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus may be paving the way for a culture that is less secretive about medical data.
Companies can also take out insurance against having to pay damages if confidential financial or medical data are accidentally or maliciously released.
Spriggs is still on a quest to visualize his medical data, which he dubbed DYIEHR for Do It Yourself Electronic Health Record.
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Patients are being reassured that their medical data is safe after two courier bags of records were found on a road in Devon.
Gawande talked to one of these health consulting companies, Verisk Health, which sorts through the medical data of over 15 million employees.
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There is still point of sale information of course, as well as other caches of rich data (census, scientific research results, medical data, etc.).
What control does the patient or other member of the healthcare ecosystem have when it comes to accessing, modifying, and transmitting any medical data?
Where it once took days for a dairy manager to input and analyze months of diet and medical data, now the conclusions are available instantly.
They even track certain medical data and requirements for specific employees.
Council President Wanda Lopuch is an entrepreneur (founder of Medical Data Management, sold to Dendrite International) with a passion for promoting sustainable capitalism.
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No one wants medical data to fall into the wrong hands, but neither do we want patients to suffer because their medical information cannot be accessed.
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The Prime Minister said it was "simply a waste" to have a health service like the NHS and not to use the medical data it generated.
The SSA's new disability rules would make it easier for the agency to ban representatives who withhold certain medical data, according to a draft of the regulations.
Public health authorities have mined medical data to spot the outbreak of infectious disease, and credit-card companies have found fraudulent credit-card purchases with the method, among other applications.
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This brings about another question: is the response plan a facility has in place for responding to the loss of medical data applicable to the loss of non-medical data?
The idea of sharing medical data from patients with rare diseases is gaining backing from public-health officials at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
But these -- if everybody's data, medical data is in digital form with important privacy protections, we can reduce medical errors, we can make sure that doctors and nurses, pharmacists are all communicating more effectively.
For example, one type of UPI could be used for patients who want all of their physicians to have broad access to their medical data, while another would indicate the patient must first authorize access.
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Doctors will be able to collaborate with other physicians and experts in new ways and use computers to analyze patient and medical data, allowing them to provide better and more efficient treatment for their patients.
That kind of thinking has led to the botched computerisation in Britain's National Health Service, where billions of pounds and millions of precious hours are spent on a system that at best will be substandard and at worst dangerously leaky with patients' private medical data.
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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