Big Data and Health: An NJ Spotlight Discussion Series and Report

NJ Spotlight

Project Period:

2014

Funding Amount:

$16,100

Program Area:

Population Health

Geographic Area:

Statewide

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NJ SPOTLIGHT, a subsidiary of The Community Foundation of New Jersey, is an online news service that reports on New Jersey policies, legislation, and issues that have a high impact on local communities.

This project supports two webinars on the challenges and opportunities of using Big Data to improve patient health outcomes. The first webinar, held June 25, 2014, provided an overview of Big Data in health, described examples of how Big Data are being used to improve healthcare delivery, and discussed how insurers can use Big Data analyses to cut costs and improve outcomes. In related work, NJ SPOTLIGHT developed a Special Report on how Big Data are being applied to improve healthcare outcomes and costs.

The second webinar, held October 23, 2014, explored issues related to transparency of Big Data, cost, and privacy, as well as areas of resistance within health systems to the use of Big Data technologies.

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Webinar: Big Data and Healthcare – The Impact on Prices and Privacy

11.25.2014

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The volume of healthcare data that is being collected to meet the requirements and goals of the Affordable Care Act will have a dramatic impact on healthcare delivery. What should we expect when it comes to data transparency, lower prices, and privacy?

In this NJ Spotlight webinar, expert David Newman—Executive Director of the Health Care Cost Institute—looked at the issues as they relate to consumers, healthcare providers and insurers. He discussed how states are making good use of big data, and the challenges ahead.

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Report: How “Big Data” is Transforming Today’s Healthcare Sector

10.15.2014

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The term “Big Data" seems to be everywhere these days. It’s being used to describe how marketers learn about shoppers’ preferences, security organizations pinpoint potential risks, and demographers identify major trends. But nowhere does the use of big data have more potential to influence our quality of life than in healthcare.

In a Nicholson-sponsored article that won awards from two New Jersey journalism associations, NJSpotlight writer Meir Rinde takes an in-depth look at how big data are now making it possible to crunch large volumes of digital records to enhance healthcare decision making.

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Webinar: Big Data and Health – Are You Ready for a Critical Transformation of the Healthcare Sector?

6.27.2014

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The rollout of the Affordable Care Act, with its emphasis on electronic information, healthcare delivery partnerships, and reducing costs, makes this the opportune time to start “big data” projects to improve patient outcomes.

This NJ Spotlight webinar, sponsored by The Nicholson Foundation and held June 25, 2014, introduced the subject of analyzing large data sets to discover trends and outliers in order to improve healthcare delivery.

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Project Period:

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Funding Amount:

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