NetApp recently put out an Infographic that depicts the body as a source of big data. It’s a pretty cool representation of the power of data in healthcare. In my HIMSS 2013 preview video, I suggested that HIMSS 2013 might be the year of Healthcare Big Data at HIMSS. This infographic displays many of the opportunities.
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.
In my random visit to Twitter today, the master of healthcare Twitter usage, Gregg Masters (@2healthguru), posted a picture that really struck a chord with me. It’s embedded below for those who want to see it. In the picture it shows a number of core functionality and technology that’s needed to get a person’s healthcare data into their hands to become truly empowered patients. You might also call this the Quantified Self Continuum, but I also like the Pervasive Healthcare Technologies Continuum.
Here are the steps it displays: Ubiquitous Sensing -> Wireless Connectivity -> Cloud Computing -> Social Networks -> Empowered Patients
I think the one we’re missing the most right now is ubiquitous sensing. We’ve just started down this path and still have a long way to go to make this a reality. I’m also not sure about social networks being the way that the information is distributed. At least not the social networks they list. I think they might be healthcare specific networks that connect and share the data, but are lifted up and made more prominent using the major social networks.
Ok, here’s the tweet and picture. What are your thoughts on it?
The conversion pathway twitter.com/2healthguru/st…
— Gregg Masters (@2healthguru) March 20, 2012
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.
