Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2016
Top scientist wants to bring big data analysis to health care
20 October 2016 - A day after winning the Prime Minister's Innovation Prize, Mike Aitken, was busy pressuring federal and state governments, health funds, hospitals and doctors to begin a mammoth big data exercise in healthcare.
Aitken, who is chief executive of the Capital Markets Co-operative Research Centre, says there is an opportunity to save up to $20 billion a year from leveraging the power of personal health data.
His urgent call for action is timed to coincide with the publication of the first of three reports by CMCRC on the multiple silos of data in the health care system.
