For decades, innovators have been holding a candle for the potential of Big Data to one day revolutionize health care. Entrepreneurs have developed ways for people to track their own biological metrics, and for companies to use advances like artificial intelligence to provide more targeted care. Are we finally at the point where data can lead to tangible changes in health care? Or is still an unfulfilled promise? Medical experts at Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Health conference discussed the promise and continued challenges of mining health data for insights.
“It's not about the data, it's about what you do with the data in terms of making sense of it,” said Dr. Anil Jain, the vice president and chief health information officer of IBM Watson Health, said on Tuesday in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
