A Brief History Since the end of the twentieth century, the digitization of information has brought forth a new wave of innovation in healthcare research and services. Big data in healthcare is generated from a vast multitude of sources: medical imaging, electronic health records, payer records, wearable and medical devices, pharmaceutical research, clinical trials, and genomic sequencing — just to name a few. The integration of big data in healthcare has opened up new research horizons for rare diseases and cancer. And as hospitals and clinics have begun to adopt new technologies driven by big data, they have been able…
Author: Amit Sinha
Amit Sinha
Amit U Sinha, PhD (Machine Learning and Genomics) is the founder and CEO of Basepair, an online NGS analysis platform. Amit is an expert in genomics and bioinformatics, with over a decade of experience in the field. Prior to founding Basepair, Amit worked as an investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Additionally, he has held research faculty positions at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Amit's work focuses on leveraging technology to improve healthcare research by enabling scientists to make sense of big data quickly and accurately.
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