In the fast-moving world of health IT, there can be too much of a good thing. So argues John Mattison, chief medical information officer (CMIO) at Kaiser Permanente. Speaking recently at a health-tech conference, Mattison touted the potential for big data to improve patient outcomes and population health, while at the same time warning that without proper governance models, interoperability standards and developer platforms, the flood of medical information being collected and stored could become unmanageable. "We have a lot of people who are traditional data scientists," Mattison says, who are "freaked out about big data."
