2. Executive Summary
A perfect storm of mobile data, scientific
progress and increasing complexity in
data has placed the health care industry
on the verge of a data deluge.
This Sector RoadMap report, which
provides a snapshot of the key
competitive market areas, explores some
of the factors creating new opportunities
for success in health data and analytics.
3. Trends and drivers
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the
creation of accountable care organizations
• Big data transforming other sectors
• Dramatic growth in health data and the need to manage
and use data
• Fraud and inefficiencies
• End of the Blockbuster-drug era
4. Challenges
• Unstructured data
• Enterprise-wide data-management policies
• Shortage of health informatics and data-science
specialists
• Ownership, stewardship, and governance of data
• Interoperability and legacy systems
5. Disruption vectors
We identified five competitive areas — what we call disruption vectors
— where the key players will strive to gain an advantage in the health
care and big data sectors:
• Data integration and interoperability
• Data analytics
• Risk analysis and predictive modeling
• Fraud detection and inefficiencies
• Consumer analytics and information asymmetries
6. Sector RoadMap
Big data health care platform vendors scored against disruption vectors
• Number indicates company’s relative strength across all vectors
• Size of ball indicates company’s relative strength along individual vector
7. Companies to watch
Apixio Predilytics
Truven Health Analytics Health Fidelity
Explorys Castlight Health
LexisNexis PrimerLife
AgeTak Cloudera
IBM: Watson and Netezza 100Plus
Humedica Predixion Software
GNS Healthcare
8. Conclusion
• Health care is still in the early days of using big data and analytics
models derived from big data tools.
• Many startups are hesitant to invest in this sector, due to the
regulatory challenges with HIPAA as well as the degree of
fragmentation and the traditionally slow adoption of new
technologies.
• These are all barriers to entry, but for those willing to take a risk, the
overall business opportunity in health care is strong.
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