With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall 201
curtwoodward writes "Now that President Obama's federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell 'big data' software are licking their chops. The reason: Healthcare has huge piles of information that is being used in new ways, to track patient admissions, spending, and much more. From hospitals to insurance companies, they'll all need new ways of crunching those numbers. It's basically an entirely new field that will dwarf the spending growth in traditional data-heavy industries like finance, retail and marketing, a Microsoft regional sales GM says."
Oh you mean... (Score:4, Funny)
You'll lobby the government to update everything to metro and get a big nice juicy contract.
scatological terminology (Score:1, Funny)
Usually, I find that those who complain about the use of scatological terminology are on the losing end of the argument in no uncertain terms, and are a suit weasel.
Re:USA medical spend 15% of GDP, Europe 8-10% (Score:3, Funny)
In the UK the figure is 9%. Everyone has access to healthcare free at the point of use ( tax funded ). The downside is that when we reach the age of 30 our crystals glow red and we have to report to the NHS death panels.
Re:"Big Data" (Score:3, Funny)
That's "Total Fucking Fool" to you...
Re:"Big Data" (Score:4, Funny)