“Data is the new Oil. Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.”
“The combination of Obamacare regulations, incentives in the recovery act for doctors and hospitals to shift to electronic records and the releasing of mountains of data held by the Department of Health and Human Services is creating a new marketplace and platform for innovation — a health care Silicon Valley — that has the potential to create better outcomes at lower costs by changing how health data are stored, shared and mined. It’s a new industry.”
“Is a social network without integrated analytics like a vehicle without a safety belt?”