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TITLE : VICE PRESIDENT IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

COMPANY : WOLTERS KLUWER INDUSTRY : INFORMATION SERVICES LOCATION : UNITED STATES

Flannery has worked at Wolters Kluwer for over 9 years , consistently in the field of advanced technology . Prior to this he was the Director for Global Planning , Strategy and Architecture at Dow Jones , and before that he worked at its affiliated research company Factiva in text and information mining .

He considers himself a strategic leader , with a passion for building user-centric , innovative solutions , using advanced technologies that create business value .

Data-driven care One of the benefits of using big data in healthcare is having additional information , however it ' s not the quantity of data that is valuable , it ' s knowing what to do with it .

" Big data , combined with advanced analytics , makes it possible to spot patterns in vast amounts of seemingly unconnected data " says Bill Flannery , Vice President in Advanced Technology Development at Wolters Kluwer .

" This can be life-saving in a clinical setting , as it can provide an early warning or faster diagnosis than is possible by manually analysing smaller sets of data ."

Wolters Kluwer operates in a number of sectors alongside healthcare , and provides clinical tools that use AI , machine learning and visualisation .

" The power of big data , artificial intelligence and machine learning is that they deal with much more than the simple comparisons that humans can perform " Flannery says . " The human brain can only look at a small set of variables and how they might interact . This puts a natural limit on the complexity of situations a busy clinician can address ."

Like Premier Home Health Care , Wolters Kluwer deploys big data to detect sepsis ,

BILL FLANNERY VICE PRESIDENT IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT , WOLTERS KLUWER

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