This is pretty exciting:
I.B.M. Unveils Software to Find Trends in Vast Data Sets - NYTimes.com
if you can harness this technology on real time processing of microbiology data in a hospital, or even in a health system, you can track and squash disease outbreaks before they even happen.
the problem with the google flu tracker is that it required people to type in their personal data and there was a lag time before google could see that there was any real pandemic. NEJM article on that here. Google flu tracker to me is an imperfect solution that doesn't mine the right data. But this IBM technology, and I know other companies are out there doing this sort of stuff - is much more interesting, and powerful as a driver for improving health care.
Of side note, there was a kind of interesting new yorker article on one of the pioneers of real time data processing by malcolm gladwell. peripherally deals with data processing, but is more about team performance.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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