Historical medical information that resides in claims data, electronic medical records (EMRs), and elsewhere has enduring value, but those data remain, by definition, anchored in the past. EMRs, for example, give us a much better view of what happened than what is happening now or what will happen next.
Today, faster diagnostics, machine learning on large sets of data, and nascent proteomics among other things promise a real-time understanding of health.
