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Storage, Management, and Analysis in the Health Data Lifecycle

October 3, 2023 - The data lifecycle drives data analytics projects across industries, and healthcare is no exception. Healthcare stakeholders need to have a firm grasp on each of the steps in the cycle — data generation, collection, processing, storage, management, analysis, visualization, interpretation, and disposal — for their analytics initiatives to succeed. This is the second...


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