The big data challenge for informatics

The era of “big data” is upon us, and the challenge for healthcare will be to make sense of all the information being collected. The average hospital will have 450 terabytes of patient data by 2015, with much of that volume consisting of medical imaging.

To learn how the University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and others are mining big data centers, check out the link below from Minneapolis’ Star Tribune.

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Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.