Big Data offers big promise in the medical field

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In handling some kinds of life-or-death medical judgements, computers have already have surpassed the abilities of doctors. 

We’re looking at something like promise of self-driving cars, according to Zak Kohane, a doctor and researcher at Harvard Medical School. On the roads, replacing drivers with computers could save thousands of lives that would otherwise be lost to human error. In medicine, replacing intuition with machine intelligence might save patients from deadly drug side effects or otherwise incurable cancers.