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Ebola: Can big data or semantic text help?
“Many problems” in this case Yes it can. We’ll get to to how big data or semantic meaning can help in a moment. First a few observations. As the Prof. Redlener, the NYT’s expert on disaster preparedness put it, “There are many, many problems that have been revealed by this single case.” This is a polite way for saying what at the Dallas hospital was a major screw-up that needlessly put lives in danger and unnecessarily forced additional people into a 21-day quarantine. We can talk about using semantic text technologies to prevent these kinds of hospital errors, or big data to improve traveler screening processes. At the end of the day, however, this is a type of error that the billing department at the Dallas hospital should have been able to catch. EbolaCare(TM) insurance “Where do we send this bill?” “Hmmm, address in Liberia. Looks like he has EbolaCare(TM), the national health plan of Liberia.”… Read the restRecent Posts
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