Real-Time Healthcare Analytics: Why the Data Problem Starts in the Lab

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This post argues for the necessity of real-time data ingestion and querying in healthcare analytics, highlighting the limitations of legacy systems and batch processing. It contrasts the typical millisecond-level real-time processing in other industries with the life-or-death stakes in healthcare, where real-time alerts can prevent critical patient conditions. The author advocates for a unified healthcare data management platform that can handle structured, unstructured, and semi-structured health data, ingest data in real-time, and support streaming and operational analytics on the same system to enable analytics at the point of care.