Sharing healthcare data not as easy as it sounds

Sharing healthcare data not as easy as it sounds
To the editor: The article on Big Data's potential to improve healthcare overlooks a fundamental problem: Many of the institutions that hold our most valuable health data are reluctant to share them with one another. ("Big data, meet big money: NIH …
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Liberian Health-Care Workers Threaten to Strike
MONROVIA, Liberia—Liberian health-care workers said they would strike early Monday, citing the government's failure to negotiate on requests for higher hazard pay and safer working conditions as the Ebola outbreak ravages the country. Doctors, nurses …
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How Did the Healthcare Worker in Dallas Contract Ebola?
The emergency entrance to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas, Texas. Hospital officials have said they are no longer accepting new patients at this time after a healthcare worker, who was caring for Ebola patient …
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