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nts to 100 gigabytes of data, which is equivalent to 102,400 photos.  Sequencing multiple human genomes would quickly add up to hundreds of petabytes of data, and the data created by analysis of gene interactions multiply those further. 

it was the first company we had seen that flattened out clinical data and matched it with administrative data.”

But one example he gives would be around transparency in hospital practices, identifying trends that would be used compare the costs of one hospital caring for a particular patient with another system in the context of the clinical stream to see what each one is doing differently.

Every health system is in the business of protecting their doctors,” said Miller.

Mr. Mead cited a report by the Institute of Medicine that tallied more than $760 billion in health care “waste” created annually as a result of consumer fraud, unnecessary procedures and excessive administrative costs.

r. Mead said the campaign also stressed the need for health care providers to shift to a model known as “accountable care,” which shifts their reimbursement models for health care professionals from being paid for the volume of services they perform to being paid based on the outcomes of patient care. Accountable care systems are usually linked to technologies that help health care providers measure performance and manage patient data. Aetna has 27 accountable health care agreements with hospitals and other health care providers around the country.

Bertolini said in the video. “If we fix just 20 percent of it, we could pay for the Affordable Care Act. We could insure everyone without increasing taxes.”

he findings were — so to speak — all over the map. Depending on where she lived within the state, a woman's chances of having her uterus removed varied as much as threefold. A man's chances of having his prostate removed varied as much as fourfold. And the children of Morrisville were more than 10 times as likely to have their tonsils removed as their counterparts in Middlebury.

It was the dawn of the era of big data

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