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"If You Could Ask Any Question About Your Population..."

Imagine having masses of real-time data at your fingertips - medications, treatments, diagnoses, outcomes - all knitted together with "Google-esque" technology, available anytime, anywhere to improve care and outcomes.

From Cleveland, Ohio via MedCity News:
"Steve McHale and Charlie Lougheed want to help medical researchers and physicians get together to make sense of burgeoning patient data, leading to innovations in health care.
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"Now, McHale and Lougheed are creating Explorys Medical Inc. to develop a Google-esque technology that enables researchers and physicians to noodle questions by querying databases of medical information in real time, leading to their next discoveries."
Venture capitalists and physicians from The Cleveland Clinic are providing start-up capital.

As a health care planner, I've always been frustrated by rigidly-structured databases and canned reports. Much more enlightening is the ability to "cruise" the data, asking spur of the moment questions and making unexpected connections. Structure is necessary but often leads to thinking like everyone else. "Noodling" is what leads to breakthroughs in thinking and in strategy.

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