Data driven healthcare: It's personal | Aaron Black | TEDxTysons

What if you received text messages from your body with your health updates? Alerting you to swipe left or right to take action or seek help. Aaron Black is the Director of Informatics at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI), which is part of the Inova Health Care System in Northern Virginia. At ITMI, Aaron is leading a cross functional team of scientists, doctors and IT professionals to build a world-class data infrastructure for the institute's genomics research and clinical services – and ultimately for the purpose of translating genomics research for medical discoveries and improved patient care. He has helped architect and manage one of the world’s largest databases of biological, clinical and environmental data that has ever been collected on human subjects. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx