Real Time Big Data Analytics for Clinical Care

Over the summer, I’ve given many lectures about SMAC - social media, mobile, analytics and cloud computing.The most popular analytics topics are business intelligence, big data, and novel data visualizations.Recently, Dr. Chris Longhurst, chief medical information officer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and colleagues wrote an article in the Big Data Issue of Health Affairs, that suggests a very practical approach for enabling real time analytics within an EHR.   They call it the Green Button.The Blue Button is for patient view/download/transmit of medical records.The Green Button is for instant access to outcomes, cost, and risk information for patients that match a given profile.Here’s a personal example.When my wife was diagnosed with Stage IIIA Breast Cancer in December of 2011, the biomarkers of the tumor were HER2 -, Estrogen +, Progesterone +.    Imagine that while in her record, a Green Button enabled access to the de-identified records of all 50 year old, Asian females with similar tumors and showed the treatment protocol used, the side effects, the cure rate, the cost, and the complications.Although not completely scientific, such an approach does not identify causality, it does demonstrate experience and standard practices in the community.   The Green Button idea is foundational to the learning healthcare system we’re all trying to build.We do need to be careful.   Here’s one example from our work with I2B2/Shrine.Did you kn...
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