Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this messy, gappy information, countries and NGOs need to make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change in collecting health data in the past decade -- starting with the PalmPilot and Hotmail, and now moving into the cloud.

Joel Selanikio: The big-data revolution in health care

The big-data revolution in health care

Transitioning from paper to digital data collection, like using Magpi, accelerates global health insights, saving both time and lives.

Leveraging cloud-based tools for data gathering in healthcare transforms months of work into minutes, enabling real-time decision-making.

From tracking vaccinations to documenting crimes, cloud-based data collection democratizes information access, fueling global improvements.