Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occurring in Our Midst

Human beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, how that information is interconnected. As medical data continues to explode and become increasingly digital, the vast amount of information that is able to be collected presents significant opportunities to improve the nature of medicine and care. In short, the influx of patient data and decoded genetics has turned modern medical issues into Big Data problems. In the future, the Hippocratic Oath will require doctors to take this genetic variability into account, which poses a number of ethical questions and concerns.

This discussion aims to dissect the revolution of personalized medicine, and more specifically how big data and our decoded genomics will change the nature of disease, healthcare diagnoses, treatment, and regulation.

Speaker: Ted Driscoll, Claremont Creek Ventures