The healthcare industry is a wellspring of data, and that accumulation is growing rapidly. According to World Economic Forum figures cited by Microsoft, hospitals produce 50 petabytes of data per year — equivalent to 10 billion MP3 music files — and 97% of that data goes unused.
Microsoft is aiming to help its healthcare industry partners free up that data and leverage it to improve the day-to-day operations of frontline clinicians, Rhew told Healthcare Dive.
