IDG Contributor Network: Healthcare analytics, big data oil and the multilane expressway

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at an event on the state of healthcare analytics. The event was about big data technology adoption, specifically Hadoop. While I was there, I sat in on a presentation by the chief data officer (CDO) of a major financial services company that is harnessing big data and deploying advanced technologies such as Hadoop. Listening to his comments, I reflected that several drivers of analytics in the financial sector seemed to be common to healthcare, includin