If there is one emerging pattern within the clinical informatics field, it is the quest to make data "actionable" for users. With all the technology infrastructure development over the past decade to ...

What would disruptive innovation look like in your field? Let me take the innovative angle first. For innovation, it’s really all about doing things that you couldn’t do before, or as an informaticist ...

Expected to grow about 48 percent annually from a myriad of data sources, the healthcare industry faces both challenges and opportunities in leveraging that data in such areas as medical research, ...

Public health officials, medical professionals, and data scientists must get a foot in the door and engage with the federal and state efforts to pass privacy legislation facilitating the use of ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...