Industry Voices—These examples show how big data is already saving lives

Israel is making a big bet on big data in medical research and treatment. There are dozens of startups—and large companies—that are parsing anonymized medical data, outcomes and results for patients, and patient data for clues on how diseases develop, how they can be treated more effectively, and how they can be prevented. To that end, the Israeli government is investing some $300 million in a big data digitization project, to make anonymized data available to researchers.
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