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		kmassada on Nov 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How will big data impact Medicine? Actually very relevant in medical field, diagnostics on its own is about patterns. What best to represent and collect patterns than big data.

cmonsen on Nov 2, 2012 [–]

Definitely. But with still mostly paper recording, limited data standards, and particularly onerous privacy requirements (justifiably so), it is not a foregone conclusion that the big data trend will impact medicine anytime soon.

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