Medical Data Errors

With 100,000 health apps for smartphones and a potential market of close to half trillion dollars driving companies like Apple, IBM and Qualcomm into medical analytics, a question arises whether big data will make healthcare better or only more expensive—which the first of these two pieces addresses.  The second story raises the problem of electronic health records (a key data source) introducing diagnostic errors from misinterpretation or “computer error.”   MORE

and  EHRs as a source of medical errors.  MORE

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