Speaker Name(s): William Hendee, PhD
Description: The knowledge fabric of healthcare is being challenged by the overwhelming amount of data produced by new modalities, technologies and information systems. As this ever increasing data is delivered to clinicians, organizations are struggling with how to store, index and access this information. The format and context in which the data is presented allows it to form the valuable information and knowledge that can be used by clinicians to care for their patients. In addition, much can be learned through the aggregation and analysis of these large data sets of individual clinical data, offering new insight into physiology, genetics and disease processes. Researchers must be able to examine this multi-dimensional data and apply sophisticated epidemiological principles to their path of analysis. Only then will we obtain all the benefits from collecting this data. In this session, attendees will hear from informatics experts who will share their experiences dealing with this tsunami of data and the steps they are taking to secure all the benefits it has within.