Healthcare is swimming in data, but what to do with it?

Healthcare IT News: BOSTON – The healthcare industry is amassing more data than at any time in history but much of it is running on top of legacy technology.

“The average hospital generates 665 TB a year,” said John Quackenbush, a professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health.

Speaking at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum on Monday, Quackenbush added: “We’re awash in data -- the challenge is what to do with it.”

Vik Nagjee, CTO of Pure Storage, said that many hospitals still operate with legacy IT and pointed to one integrated delivery network that maintains a whopping 18,000 applications.

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