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Big Data for Healthcare: Why are we collecting all this data?

The induction of electronic health records, the building of health information exchanges and moving big data to the cloud seemed unconceivable for most. And for many the words healthcare technology, data and analytics strike a sense of etherealness. All this time and investment in data and where it is leading us to? The latest news in Health IT has started to present some optimistic signs for healthcare providers and hospitals