Make Your Lazy Data Not So Lazy

In this contributed article, Kyle McAllister, Practice Director, Data Analytics for Pivot Point Consulting, discusses how many healthcare organizations are willing to invest in new technologies like AI/ML with no plan for what they will do with it once acquired. One of the most pervasive examples of this phenomenon in the big data era is often referred to as “lazy data.” This is data gathered for the sake of gathering data, with no real use case behind it.