Aggregating vast amounts of clinical information online will lead to “n-dimensional queriable research databases.” A researcher will be able to ask “what if” questions, and answer them by dipping into databases with hundreds of millions of records, and aggregating all cases that fit.
Predictor: Flower, Joe
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Joe Flower explains the types of changes that could come in health care through the use of networked computing. Flower writes:”On the research end, aggregating vast amounts of clinical information online will lead to ‘n-dimensional queriable research databases.’ A researcher will be able to ask ‘what if’ questions, and answer them by dipping into databases with hundreds of millions of records, and aggregating all cases that fit. Currently, a researcher might ask a question with a single dimension and a longitudinal progression, such as: ‘Give me all the patients who took such-and-such drug, and search their records for six years afterward for these possible after-effects.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Other Revolution in Health Care: Leave Hillary and Bill Out of It … The Health Care System is Going to Change Drastically Over the Next Decade
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/healthcare_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney