Use code: PATIMES15 for 15% of a two-day Conference pass. Enacting an effective and meaningful population health management program, especially when that population has a high proportion of patients with complex needs, has been one of the most challenging tasks for physicians and health systems seeking to transform themselves into epicenters of coordinated, data-driven
Today’s companies have the potential to benefit from incredibly large amounts of data. To shake off the mystery of this “Big Data,” it’s useful to know its history. In the not-so-distant past, firms tracked their own internal...
“Every step you take, I’ll be watching you” – when Sting wrote those lyrics back in the ’80’s he most certainly wasn’t thinking about digital data collection. But whether we realize it or not, every digital step...
Text analytics can reveal even more about customers Move over, Big Data. Here comes Big Text. Or, as it’s more commonly known, “text analytics.” Or, sometimes, “text mining.” Essentially, it’s the analysis of all the unstructured data...
Many data centers are finding it hard to keep pace with the demands growing information sets are putting on them Hospital datacenters are being overwhelmed by the ongoing data explosion. Pushed to acquire, analyze, secure and deliver...
Use code: PATIMES15 for 15% of a two-day Conference pass. Despite challenges such as a lack of standardization of data, the health care industry is taking steps to give doctors insight on how to improve patient...
Use Code PATIMES15 for 15% off a two day pass or combo pass. (Excludes workshops & All Access) One of the most popular tools in data science today is the open-source programming language R. Simply put, R...
June was an exciting month for Apache Spark. At Hadoop Summit San Jose, it was a frequent topic of conversation, as well as the subject of many session presentations. On June 15, IBM announced plans to make a massive...
No matter how quickly technology progresses and businesses experience the subsequent benefits, people are usually looking ahead to the next big thing. The same can be said of big data. Once organizations began compiling massive amounts of...
Anyone looking to run a successful business cannot ignore demographics. Once your target audience has been established, it behooves marketers to determine your core customer’s age, gender, race and income level. While it’s important to retain existing...