Article Summary :
Ten years ago, investing in Big (health) Data to manage population health didn’t make sense. There just wasn’t much digital data. Then in 2004, President George W. Bush kicked off a project designed to provide most Americans with an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. President Obama accelerated that push, and put a series of incentives behind it, with the HITECH Act in 2009. More than 60 percent of doctors use EHRs every day, generating tremendously valuable clinical data.
