Coding Contest Shows How Big Data Can Improve Health Care PCWorld By Fred O'Connor, IDG News A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care. The Health 2.0 Boston Code-a-thon, ...
Strong April Sales Data Lifts Shares Of Mattress Companies Wall Street Journal (SCSS) and Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (TPX) each surged about 5% as the April sales data shows a bounce back from weaker March sales. The International Sleep Products Association said revenue from sales of mattresses and foundations grew by 14.5% ...
Big Data Can Save Health Care—But at What Cost to Privacy? The Atlantic Several of the lesser-known ones focused on how to best collect, aggregate, and share more and better patient health data. The data at issue includes: patients' medical records, which are now typically held by multiple doctors and hospitals; ...
What to Watch For: Next Week's Data Docket MarketWatch By Benzinga.com Next week is a crazy week in terms of data releases. On Monday, the data docket is rather lackluster (do note, US markets are closed, but investors who trade non-US assets will still use this). Overnight, we will get the Italian ...