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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. This was the first multipurpose computer used to store/compress data. It weighed 30 tons!
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S. S. Stevens developed four classifications, or levels of measurement, for
quantitative data based on its inherent values: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
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Vital statistics become part of the new National Center for Health Statistics, now part of the CDC.
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Edmund Haley developed the first mortality tables to predict life expectancy. This was the mergence of data and probabilistic analysis.
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The adoption and use of information technologies to capture, store and analyze health information
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US Environmental Protection Agency, relying on a meta-analysis of 11 studies of smokers' spouses, classified environmental or "second-hand" tobacco smoke as a Group A carcinogen along with radon, asbestos, and benzene
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A four tiered approach to standardize improvement and to achieve a better patient safety record.
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Formalized state-level HIEs; the interoperable and flexible
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CMS require EHR systems to exchange immuniza-
tion data with IISs starting in 2014.
These new regulations may result in more bidi-
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Participants in the NIH Bioinformatics
Festival agreed the factors that create such large datasets include high volume, variety, velocity, variability, as well as complex vocabularies, validation, and verification, and these issues continue to be subject to intense research and discussion -
ICD-10-CM codes are now mandated for all inpatient medical reporting requirements. There are over 70,000 ICD-10-CM codes, which is up from around 14,000 ICD-9-CM codes
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President Obama created Data.gov which became the model for an accessible repository of datasets and tools.
