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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big data, and Health Information: What you need to Know!
Health information and big data have been the pinnacle of a rapidly advancing healthcare technology. The progress is so fast that the healthcare community finds it difficult to keep up, creating a vacuum that encourages alternate interests and monopolies in the healthcare space.
Most of us would agree that healthcare technology is just a tool like a pen we write with or a car we drive. And we all know that we have the basic knowledge of the technology behind both devices.
But can the same be said about healthcare technology today? Probably not!
We need to understand the basics of technology to prevent its adverse consequences.
The Implications of Big Data in Healthcare
Did you know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) requires a considerable volume of your information in the form of big data to function? Imagine you could get paid for something that they steal from you!
Electronic medical records (EMR) generate a considerable amount of data that contains information accessible easily through data, mining-something which was not possible with paper records. An average tertiary care hospital generates…
