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Saving Lives with Big Data:
Unlocking the Hidden Potential
in Electronic Health Records
Juergen Klenk, Yugal Sharma, and Jeni Fan
What if you could be alerted, perhaps through your smartphone, that
you may be about to have a heart attack, stroke, or some other medical
event—well before its onset? And that this warning would be based not
on commonly recognized symptoms but on a sophisticated data analysis
of your vital signs and other health information. In such a scenario, your
medical data would be continuously monitored and scanned by powerful
computers searching for complex patterns—the patterns of thousands of
heart attack or stroke vic ...