For example (indulge me for a minute; I'll get to the point), Blue Cross requires us to enter data about our patients into their system. I'm a big fan of science-based medicine, something that requires lots of good data, but the article seems to imply something more emergent, a "SkyNet" of medicine if you will. Imagine all that data being crunched, in real time, by machines looking for patterns—which then put out a simple text message. What it cannot tell us is how to get Mrs. Smith to that number, or even if that number is right for her. Big data is unlikely to make a "real-time" difference in patients' lives.

Source: Forbes January 16, 2017 12:48 UTC