Would its big data and technical analysis provide an accurate measure of credit risk for loans to small customers?
Among the obstacles to adoption are laws aimed at protecting patient information, and a shortage of technical talent; hospitals and clinics compete for big data engineers whose technical skills can be agnostically applied across industries.
While the technology that enables big data is quite technical and designed to operate behind the scenes, the direct impact of big data on the average consumer will be quite visible over time.
Regarding the workforce, we include not only the IT workforce providing all the technical big data ability, but also, the amount of workforce devoted to leveraging the technical inputs for business insights, e.g., big data analysts, etc.
"Big Data at Work" covers all the bases: what big data means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; what its opportunities and costs are; where it can have real business impact; and which aspects of this hot topic have been oversold.
From the viewpoint of big data as a socio-technical phenomenon, this study examines the associated assumptions and biases critically and contextually.
The collected authors ably grapple with how big data as a socio-technical system contributes to knowledge, shapes human behavior and choices, and has become increasingly integral to our social, legal, political, and economic systems.
This book provides thorough, interdisciplinary analysis of EHR systems and medical big data, offering a multitude of technical and legal insights.
