Can Big Data Fix Healthcare?
What will healthcare look like in the year 2020? One thing is certain: we can’t afford its current trajectory. Left unchecked, our $2.6 trillion in annual spending will grow to $4.6 trillion by 2020,...
View ArticleMusings from the Mobile Health Summit with Carol McCall
I had the pleasure of connecting with one of the newest members of the GNS Healthcare executive team, Carol McCall, our Chief Strategy Officer. Our chat gave me the opportunity to get her perspective...
View ArticleBeyond the $1,000 Genome
The cost of mapping an individual human genome may break the $1,000 barrier by the end of the year, thanks to Life Technologies, Jonathan Rothberg and the Ion Proton Sequencer. This achievement, more...
View ArticleIn God We Trust, All Others Bring Evidence
Hello, I'm Carol McCall, Chief Strategy Officer for GNS Healthcare, and I recently participated in a Webinar conducted by Forbes' Matthew Herper. Our panel's focus was Real World Outcomes, which, like...
View ArticleWhat Did You Know, and When Did You Stop Knowing It?
Recently, a story (Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists) appeared in The Wall Street Journal that was critical of -- what turns out to be -- an increasingly common type of medical investigation: the...
View ArticleMoving Healthcare from the 'Mad Men' Era into the Big Data Age
In one of the most powerful scenes from the show Mad Men, Don Draper stands in a darkened boardroom, a single shaft of light beaming onto a screen as he delivers the pitch of a lifetime to executives...
View ArticleCan Big Data Save My Dad From Cancer?
My father, Foster Hill, has stage III prostate cancer.
View ArticleCan Big Data Fix Healthcare?
What will healthcare look like in the year 2020? One thing is certain: we can’t afford its current trajectory. Left unchecked, our $2.6 trillion in annual spending will grow to $4.6 trillion by 2020,...
View ArticleFrom Burden to Bonanza
A Hot Topic Big Data is a hot topic. From high-profile reports by the Aspen Institute, McKinsey and The Economist, to O’Reilly’s Strata conferences, to stories every week in the New York Times and...
View ArticleMusings from the Mobile Health Summit with Carol McCall
I had the pleasure of connecting with one of the newest members of the GNS Healthcare executive team, Carol McCall, our Chief Strategy Officer. Our chat gave me the opportunity to get her perspective...
View ArticleBeyond the $1,000 Genome
The cost of mapping an individual human genome may break the $1,000 barrier by the end of the year, thanks to Life Technologies, Jonathan Rothberg and the Ion Proton Sequencer. This achievement, more...
View ArticleIn God We Trust, All Others Bring Evidence
Hello, I'm Carol McCall, Chief Strategy Officer for GNS Healthcare, and I recently participated in a Webinar conducted by Forbes' Matthew Herper. Our panel's focus was Real World Outcomes, which, like...
View ArticleWhat Did You Know, and When Did You Stop Knowing It?
Recently, a story (Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists) appeared in The Wall Street Journal that was critical of -- what turns out to be -- an increasingly common type of medical investigation: the...
View ArticleMoving Healthcare from the 'Mad Men' Era into the Big Data Age
In one of the most powerful scenes from the show Mad Men, Don Draper stands in a darkened boardroom, a single shaft of light beaming onto a screen as he delivers the pitch of a lifetime to executives...
View ArticleCan Big Data Save My Dad From Cancer?
My dad, my mom, and me in 2007 My father, Foster Hill, has stage III prostate cancer. At 69 years old, he is a quiet man who was often told in his younger days that he resembled Muhammad Ali. He...
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