Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series
Using Big Data in Healthcare
Edmund S. Jackson, PhD
Vice President and Chief Data Scientist
Hosptial Corporation of America (HCA)
Behind the froth and buzz of Big Data lie some genuinely useful and practical ideas. Moreover, as EHRs have become ubiquitous and devices proliferate in the clinical setting these ideas can be brought, meaningfully, into practice. In this talk, Dr Jackson will step through some practical uses of clinical data at HCA, describing the recent history, current state and near future.