The Future of EHRs, Big Data, and Patient Privacy - Predictive Analytics Times - machine learning & data science news

For today's leading deep learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare, June 16-19, 2019 in Las Vegas. Moving patient data online has been a great boon for the practice of medicine. Patient records, formerly pieces of paper in a folder, are transitioning to electronic health records, or EHRs. While this has done wonders for transferring records between offices and aiding in connecting technology like wearables and providing big data for machine learning, the quantity also raises questions of patient privacy and data security. The start of this story is in the volume of data.