4 Misconceptions About 'Big Data' You Can Stop Believing (Op-Ed)

Dan Hogan is founder, president and CEO of Nashville, Tennessee-based Medalogix, a health care technology company that provides analytics and workflows to home health providers. There are many approaches to big data, but most center around the technological ability to capture, aggregate and process a large volume, velocity and variety of data, as outlined in the 2014 White House report "Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values." And a 2012 International Data Corp. report estimated that