SPLASH: Population level Data-Based Healthcare by smarterplanet
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One of the most emotion-fraught scenes in Precious, the highly-regarded 2009 film, takes place when the protagonist, an overweight, illiterate, 16-year-old…
IBM Almaden Institute 2010: Smarter Healthcare Through Modeling and Simulation
Eleven million cancer patients. Twenty five thousand in clinical trials (less than 0.3%). The data (and potential learning) from 10,975,000 cancer patients is lost forever. (Skip intro by going to 6 minutes and 45 seconds)
Data-based Care and the Future Internet
This is IBM’s Smart Planet vision. I believe there is a similar vision of healthcare, were biometric data is constantly collected and communicated to smart algorithms that will alert healthcare teams to deviations from preset parameters. Interventions will be implemented at the optimal time to achieve the best outcome.
