Big data in healthcare could mean more personalized treatments and shift care from treatment to prevention, reports Health Europe.

In the US alone, healthcare costs are surging. In 2017, the spending amounted to $3.5 trillion (€3.2 trillion), with the average hospital stay day valued at $3,949 (€3,658), and the average hospital stay costs at $15,734 (€14,577).

The U.S. military is generating more big data than it can possibly begin to use, reports War of the Rocks. 

How can you beat an adversary without overpowering them? One strategy is to overwhelm it with information. The Russian government has successfully executed several cyber attacks against European countries in the past decade that did exactly that, most notably against Ukraine as part of a coordinated ground attack to seize Crimea in 2014. 

According to Asia Times, China used data from smartphones to contain the spread of Covid19.

China used location and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of Covid-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program. 

As China quarantines its citizens using big data, could the US do something similar, reports Newsweek.

Technology has played a large role in China's efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak—but how will the U.S. response compare as the virus continues to spread?