BIG Data, OPEN Data & Accelerating Heath Innovation in the Cloud

Centre for Global eHealth Innovation R. Fraser Elliot Building University Health Network Toronto, Ontario.

Jury Konga, Principal eGovFutures Group February 21, 2013.

Acknowledgements
Neil McEvoy for coordinating Location Host WWW best library EVER Health sector thank you for all you do for all of us!
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Overview
BIG Data how big? Open Data government, science, corporate

Innovation in eHealth
Opportunities & Challenges in the Cloud

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BIG Data is BIG in the Health Sector

More than 2.5

exabytes (2.5

1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte

quintillion bytes) of data are created every single day, and that number keeps growing MaRS Data Catalyst

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Open Data - new era in accessibility

A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike. opendefinition.org/ .. also needs to be machine readable with an acceptable Terms of Use agreement

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Open Data - its pervasive in Government

Over 55 participating countries

Over 180 Open Data portals

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Open Data - its gathering steam in Science

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Open Data Potential Scale & Integrate

Public Provincial Municipal Service Federal

Find the data

Share the data

Academia, NonProfits, Community Groups

External Data Linkages

(e.g. World Bank)

OpenData.CA

OpenData. EARTH

Evolved from Data Infrastructure model circa 1994

OpenStreetMap Community Updates

USE
the data
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Open Data Potential the Analytics

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Using Open Data - a Larger Societal View

Wellbeing Ontario

RGIS
Real-time Global Information Sensors network

Wellbeing
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Earth Wellbeing Canada

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Using Open Data - a Larger Societal View

Personal Health Wellbeing
multiple multiple Local Health Providers Health industry Suppliers Regional Health Regional Health Analytics Regional & Health Analytics & Regional Health Database Analytics & Regional/Provincial Database Analytics & Database Health Analytics & Database Database

Research Community

Real-time Open Health Information Network

e.g.

National Health Analytics & Database e.g. Personal Access: e.g. U.S. Veterans Affairs

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iTriage - Web & mobile

Innovation in eHealth - Applications

Multi-function health app including
Assessing symptoms Finding service facilities Details on conditions Prescription info Medical procedures My iTriage Health news

What about hospital info such as real-time wait times? Success in surgeries ..
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Health Inspections Mobile & Web apps

Innovation in eHealth - Applications

Open Data - Health inspections
Location & status with historical data Focus typically on restaurants others possible including hotels, public restrooms, transit

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Innovation in eHealth - Communities in the cloud

Creating virtual communities Crowdsourcing data Valuable online knowledge service

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Innovation in eHealth
- Virtual visits, Telemedicine & Personal Stats

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Innovation in eHealth

Data, Data, Data

SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
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Challenges in & around the eHealth Cloud

Privacy & Security Inclusiveness Knowledge Management

Culture shift to Open Data

Informed/Contextualized analytics BROADBAND Gigacities needed today!
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Opportunities for Innovative eHealth in the Cloud its almost limitless

Cloud Computing in Health - White Paper Canada Health Infoway

The health care sector in Canada should give serious consideration to the use of cloud technologies and deployment models for the delivery of their health IT systems.
Canada Health Infoway 2013-14 Corporate Plan Objectives

1. Explore New Ways to Improve the Patient Experience 2. Invest in Innovation 3. Build Electronic Health Records for Canadians 4. Get Key Information to the Point of Care
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Thank you
Jury Konga, Principal eGovFutures Group jkonga@sympatico.ca Twitter @jkonga Skype jury.konga

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