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Data Science and Analytics |
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ISchool 296A Spring 2012 |
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Big Data in Healthcare Dr. Yan Chow Director, Innovation and Advanced Technology Kaiser Permanente Abstract One of the grand challenges of medicine in the coming decades will be the management and interpretation of big data. The explosion of data from numerous sources, such as the biomedical research literature, electronic medical records, lab and imaging systems, pharmacy transactions, numerous IT infrastructure systems, on-site and remote patient monitoring, geospatial data, biosurveillance, email and social media, and sentiment analysis, threatens to overwhelm our ability to keep up. This session will discuss big data issues and related healthcare use cases at a level appropriate to the emerging status of the big data industry.
Bio Dr. Yan Chow is Director of Kaiser Permanente (KP) Information Technology?s Innovation& Advanced Technology Group (IAT). IAT identifies, assesses, and makes internal recommendations on new and emerging clinical information technologies that will impact health care in the next 2 to 5 years. IAT is affiliated with KP?s Sidney R. Garfield Center for Health Care Innovation, an advanced 37,000-sf laboratory for care delivery simulation. The Garfield Center houses a full-sized OR, L&D suite, medical/surgical ward, outpatient offices, and even a home environment. Here new spaces, technologies, and workflows are tested in as real a setting as possible without risk to patients or disruption of operations.
Dr. Chow has had a successful clinical practice at KP for over two decades. He was also involved in regional IT management, overseeing a number of operational systems, including enterprise email, reference databases, schedules, labs, radiology results, medications, and immunizations across 60,000 providers and 60 sites. He also led experimental projects such as KP?s first PC interface for mainframes and created KP?s first bulletin board forum for physicians. Dr. Chow has also founded and advised a number of startups in the Internet, health care technology, storage, and database spaces. In 2004 he was awarded 3 U.S. patents for an ultrafast network storage architecture and has developed software to accelerate very large database (VLB) processing 240-fold. He has been an author and invited speaker at industry conferences.
Dr. Chow earned his A.B. with honors from Harvard University and his M.D. from the University of California at San Diego. In 2005 he received his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley?s Haas School of Business, where he graduated as valedictorian.
Founded in 1945, Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente is the nation?s largest not-for-profit integrated health care system with 15,853 physicians, 167,178 employees, 36 medical centers, 533 medical offices, 8.7 million health plan members in 10 states, and annual revenues of $47+ billion. Kaiser Permanente is comprised of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the Permanente Medical Groups. |
