Big data, cloud computing make data access more democratic
November 15, 2013
Grazed from FierceHealthIT. Author: Susan D. Hall.
Advances in big data and cloud computing are providing more democratic access to the reams of information the government collects, federal officials said at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association annual health IT conference in Bethesda, MD. Before, data would be shipped to researchers on encrypted hard drives. Now any vetted research institution can access the same data through the cloud, reports the Federal Times.
With better tools and improved access through the cloud more scientists and researchers will be able to use the data in productive ways, said Mike Tartakovsky, the chief information officer and director of the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology at the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
George Komatsoulis, deputy director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute, said that the prospect of personalized cancer treatments will drive large-scale biomedical informatics capabilities in the next 10 years…
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