Mining the Data Oceans, Profiting on the Margins

American capitalist medicine has produced a national healthcare system that is the most expensive – and producing worse outcomes for patients in world. For many patients, social inequities racial disparities embedded throughout US have only deepened intensified over last two decades, with very few realizing promises made by medical technological innovation. Healthcare policy makers are turning to ‘data-driven healthcare’ as solution these endemic problems. Yet promise digital technologies data analytics will solve some of vexing questions science, make more accessible, affordable, equitable, fact, hides ongoing, structural injustices health care.