The promise of BI to help society advance preventative medicine and healthcare versus sick care is just starting to be tapped. Looking to the future, what are three breakthroughs in preventative health you predict will come about because of the use of BI? *Notes* Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society. Click https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_tours_the_ghost_map?language=en (Links to an external site.) link to open resource. Visit the website https://healthmap.org (Links to an external site.) and learn how data visualization and data mining are being used to track and predict infectious disease outbreaks today. Also https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map (Links to an external site.) is an interesting resource as well. Read the Harvard Business Review article at https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-cities-are-using-analytics-to-improve-public-health/ (Links to an external site.) on how cities are using analytics to improve public health.
