How Big Data Could Transform The Health Care Industry

Meet a data scientist who is using big data to create the medical systems of the future. Dr. Eric Schadt of the Icahn Institute is creating algorithms that can detect ailments and chart personalized health profiles.

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[Biomeducated]

2:50 Wow, Biomathmatics... I've never even heard of the term before! I'm having an epiphany. Again proving that Biomedical Science is multidisciplinary at heart! Fan-f*ckin'-tastic! <3

[maaike]

But what about insurances knowing everything about you... Will that not create even a bigger gap between the good and bad risks

[mmmmkay]

This was too short. I would have loved to heard more about what he had to say on big data.

[univuniveral]

Thank you vey much for the good video. I am a data scientist (python, Machine Leaning). I think I am really missing out on roles that require NHS or medical experience. Please can you name a few medical data websites/API's, as well as companies that use such data apart from the NHS. In that way, I will be able to read up on this stuff. Thank you very much in advance.

[TheFinav]

The potential is incredible. But the governance and regulation of such systems requires just as much emphasis in order to prevent corporations from selling your personal data to the highest bidder; and this is only one of the many potential pitfalls. I worry about all the utopian talk, when I hear virtually nothing about the consequences of everyone's health records being hosted on so many clouds.

[unknownstalker]

Do i need to have a high level in medical science to do that or just in data science ?

[tomridey]

Technology is a necessary tool to meet upcoming healthcare challenges.

[seansean]

Technology is great, unless it becomes a problem.

It's sad that we won't be here to see these happening.

[pbaillargeon]

Could anyone tell me the various pieces of music that are in this, none are credited at the end of the video oddly enough...

[gecorp]

great...always that doctors still paying more anttention to their brain knowledge than a machine which will tell them what to do...it is a challenge to education system to tech doctors for all this new technology

[thestarter]

Naive to think technology is gonna make everything better in the future when it's already making things worse right now