The digital age has helped bring a slow but steady revolution to the health-care space, where an increasing number of providers are looking at medical devices as more than simply tools for treating a patient. Technology now allows those devices to gather data that can be pooled with other information to offer a clearer picture into patient health in a way that has not been accomplished before. Although some aspects of health care’s evolution into a more data-centric practice are still being spoken about in the future tense, a significant amount of progress has already been achieved.
At the center of this transformation is data analytics, which builds on the ability of devices to collect data and...
