Obama's Affordable Care Act promotes the digitization of millions of medical records to measure outcomes and contain costs. Big Data may also help doctors better understand many diseases, who's most likely to get them and what the best treatments might be. It also makes the most intimate kind of personal information available to the government, insurance and drug companies — even prospective employers.  We look at the pros and cons.
Warren Olney hosts To the Point with guests, Joel Dudley: Mount Sinai Hospital  Nortin Hadler: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iya Khalil: GNS Healthcare and Deborah Peel: Patient Privacy Rights

To the Point: Big Data and Healthcare

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