In 2008 Jordan Shlain treated an elderly patient with pneumonia. He was worried about her, so he gave her his mobile number-but she didn't use it, and ended up in intensive care. This set Dr Shlain thinking about how to follow up with patients; his simple solution was a daily phone call and a spreadsheet to record the data. One day another patient in his San Francisco surgery remarked, "Dude, you need to turn this into software." He did, and earlier this year Cedars-Sinai Health System, a hospital operator in Los Angeles, adopted a patient-feedback system developed by the firm he set up, Healthloop. Doctors can use Healthloop to send their patients questions about their condition, by e-mail, text or smartphone app. Its software then works out when intervention by a doctor or nurse is needed. It is efficient and patients like it. These days the idea of finding value in health data is very much in vogue but most attention is being showered on the promise of "big data", in which giant databases on genomics, population health and treatment are crunched in the hope of discovering medical insights. But there is also a great deal going on to improve treatments and outcomes through this sort of "small data"-the collecting and processing of modest amounts of information from an individual patient.
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机译：2008年，乔丹·施兰（Jordan Shlain）为一名老年患者治疗了肺炎。他为她担心，于是给了他手机号码-但她没有使用它，最终得到了重症监护。这让Shlain博士开始思考如何跟进患者。他的简单解决方案是每天打个电话和一个记录数据的电子表格。有一天，另一位在旧金山进行手术的患者说：“老兄，你需要把它变成软件。”他做到了，今年早些时候，洛杉矶的一家医院运营商Cedars-Sinai Health System采用了由他成立的公司Healthloop开发的患者反馈系统。医生可以使用Healthloop通过电子邮件，文本或智能手机应用程序向患者发送有关其状况的问题。然后，当需要医生或护士干预时，其软件即可工作。它是有效的，患者喜欢它。如今，在健康数据中寻找价值的想法非常流行，但是大多数注意力都集中在“大数据”的承诺上，在该大数据中，有关基因组学，人群健康和治疗的巨型数据库被压缩，以期希望发现医学见解。 。但是，通过这种“小数据”，还有很多改善治疗和结果的工作-从单个患者那里收集和处理少量信息。
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