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What is Big Data? How can it be used? How can we make sense of it in our organization?
In this podcast episode, we invited experts from the Big Data SIG Steering Committee to shed light on the use of big data in healthcare. Benefiting from their expertise, knowledge and insights, we discussed the challenges, opportunities and practical implications for hospital leaders on using big data in decision-making.
Vizient works with its partners across the US to implement data-driven approaches to system wide quality improvement - find out more in this case study from Novant Health.
Understanding patient data has many resources and guides available through its website, including a resource reference guide.
The world generated vast amounts of data in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is still generating more. This data comes from many different sources, and identifying, connecting and integrating it for effective analysis remains a challenge.
The BeYond-COVID project aims to make COVID-19 data accessible to scientists in laboratories but also to anyone who can use it, such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials.
In this blogpost Emil Ackerman, Harnessing Big Data Steering Committee member with the IHF and Chief Data Officer at Pirkanmaa Wellbeing Services County, explores the futility of trying to use big data when you don't know what you are trying to find out.... 'Big data has all the answers... but what is the question?'
In his second blogpost, Emil Ackerman outlines the differences between descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics when using big data.
On Wednesday 21 October in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the IHF President, Dr Henry Gallardo, took the stage at the...
On Tuesday 20 October 2026, the Geneva Sustainability Centre signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with the Taiwan Hospital Association.
Authors: Felipe Jordan (Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Fleur de Groot (Horacio Oduber Hospital, Aruba), Ida...
Authors: Warda Abdul Jabbar (Evercare Hospital Lahore, Pakistan), Anthony James Almazan (Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center, Philippines), Laili Fathiyah...
