How big data is disrupting healthcare and life sciences

Data is the lifeblood of any business. And while advances in machine learning have been revolutionizing almost every industry, some have lagged behind due to technical constraints. Healthcare and life sciences rely on information, but when it comes to data, many professionals in this arena are stuck with legacy technologies when conducting their research. As John Brownstein, Director of the Computational Epidemiology Group at the Boston Children's Hospital put it, "We're missing the data, we're missing the realtime information, we're missing the forecasting methods. And we're missing the consumer tools that feed back to the patient to inform us about what's happening around us."