Hacking Healthcare
Healthfoo Agenda photo by Ted Eytan @tedeytan Welcome to Hacking Health, a blog on the intersections between big data, life science and healthcare. The idea for this blog arose from a series of...
View ArticleCancer, Data and the Fallacy of the $1000 Genome
I wish I could take credit for the title of today’s blog post, but it actuallyderives from a talk given by Mark Boguski of Harvard Medical School at a recent healthcare conference in Boston. Before you...
View ArticleInnovating on the Obamacare Data Platform
see photosGetty Images North AmericaClick for full photo gallery: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Health Care Law In case you missed it, the constitutionality of the Healthcare Reform law has been...
View ArticleWith a Little Help From My Friends
The Beatles (No. 1) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the fun parts about being a consultant is sitting down with different healthcare stakeholders and talking big data experiences, opportunities and...
View ArticlePhysicians Aren't Social
There were two interesting developments in the field of social networks for healthcare practitioners last week. The first was the publication of a paper in JAMA “Variation in Patient-Sharing Networks...
View ArticlePhysicians May Not Be Social, But They are Interactive
The Doctor, by Sir Luke Fildes (1891) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My last blog post, Physicians Aren’t Social , generated a number of interesting responses and a good amount of conversation. Obviously,...
View ArticleYour Genome's On An iPhone (trying to call home...)
Image via CrunchBase Ten years after the completion of the human genome project, competition between instrument makers and attempts to capture medical value from DNA sequence data continue to make the...
View ArticleRemoving The Red Tape From Patient Records
Consumers have become accustomed to using smart phones for self-managing many aspects of their daily lives but still lack access to their own healthcare data. While many doctors capture volumes of...
View ArticleWatson: Fighting the Last War
A little less than a year ago I wrote a blog post on my conversation withMark Boguski, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Medical Officer at Genome Health Solutions, regarding...
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