Big data, in conjunction with AI, can improve the healthcare outcomes for many patients, reports Yahoo Finance. 

A good number of health care stats fall into the shocking category. For example, each year 270,000-plus women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer — more than 45,000 die from the debilitating illness annually. Some 85% of breast cancers occur with no family history of it, making preventing its occurrence through diet and positive lifestyle habits impossible.

According to Built in Chicago, these three companies have their finger on the pulse of big data. 

While big data has long been harnessed by leaders across virtually every industry to make key business decisions, today, the field is a proven and established subset of tech.

Companies invest heavily in big data each year, but what if the key was to invest in better data not bigger data, reports Mar Tech

Every year companies invest billions of dollars collecting customer data to apply to marketing analytics. According to a recent CMO survey, reliance on marketing analytics to make decisions has increased from 30% to 42% in the past five years, with B2C companies using analytics the majority of the time