{"id":5041,"date":"2015-03-02T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:17:14","slug":"why-a-chief-data-scientist-in-the-white-house-is-a-big-deal-for-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-a-chief-data-scientist-in-the-white-house-is-a-big-deal-for-healthcare\/5041\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Chief Data Scientist in the White House is a Big Deal for Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"We are in an exciting but early stage of unleashing the power of big data for overall improvements in standard of living and quality of life \u2013 healthcare stands to benefit greatly from a rigorous application of advanced analytics. The appointment of the Chief Data Scientist for our nation could not have come at a better time. On Feb 18, the White House appointed \u00a0Dr. DJ Patil to the newly created position of Chief Data Scientist for our nation. This is a really, really big deal, especially for healthcare. The former LinkedIn data sciences honcho is a well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-a-chief-data-scientist-in-the-white-house-is-a-big-deal-for-healthcare\/5041\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in an exciting but early stage of unleashing the power of big data for overall improvements in standard of living and quality of life \u2013 healthcare stands to benefit greatly from a rigorous application of advanced analytics. The appointment of the Chief Data Scientist for our nation could not have come at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}