Revolutionize it – Time for big change

Hospital credentialing: time for a (big) change.

We now live in an age when information is expected to be universally accessible. It therefore seems anachronistic that a lengthy process is required each time a physician applies for a new provincial licence. Even worse, we suffer through an onerous and seemingly random credentialing process for each hospital where we wish to work. How has such ‘‘credentialing isolation’’ survived so long? When...

How big data can revolutionize pharmaceutical R & D April 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute1 estimates that applying big-data strategies to better inform decision making could generate up to $100 billion in value annually across the US healthcare system, by optimizing innovation, improving the efficiency of research and clinical trials, and building new tools for physicians, consumers, insurers, and regulators to meet the promise of more individualized ap...

Is it time for Medi-change?

Big data for big questions: it is time for data analysts to act

Pablo Moscato speaks to Francesca Lake, Managing Editor Australian Research Council Future Fellow Prof. Pablo Moscato was born in 1964 in La Plata, Argentina. Obtaining his B.Sc. in Physics at University of La Plata, his PhD was defended at UNICAMP, Brazil. While at the California Institute of Technology Concurrent Computation Program he developed, in collaboration with Michael Norman, the firs...

COPD: it is time to change!

COPD is a common cause of disability, morbidity and mortality worldwide and a major global health problem with enormous direct and indirect health care costs. Different reasons can be advanced to explain it, but among them the possibility that the recommended diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to COPD were less effective than they could be, should be also considered. The pharmacological base...