This appeared last week:ChanticleerUpdated Oct 21 2016 at 8:58 AM Top scientist wants to bring big data analysis to healthcare by Tony Boyd 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 system.The first report is called Flying Blind – Australian consumers and digital health. Aitken says it "chronicles the opportunity loss to Australia from a failure to integrate more than 50 sources of health data in Australia".The report was sent to federal and state health ministers this week.It...
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