As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. Is that “big data”? I have little difficulty storing, securing, and accessing it, so I’m not sure it qualifies as big. To me, the bigness of data is not its absolute size, but the task of transforming it into wisdom.
Using Big Data to Make Wiser Medical Decisions
Beth Israel Deaconess’s CIO on what his hospital is learning.
December 14, 2015
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