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This  Healthcare Data Modeling Gets Hadoop Boost  Healthcare
firm Archimedes uses Hadoop and Univa software to streamline
modeling operation.  20 Great Ideas To Steal 20 Great Ideas To
Steal (click image for larger view and for slideshow) San
Francisco-based Archimedes has been modeling healthcare data for
two decades. The company's Archimedes Model runs on a
distributed network and calculates the effects of interventions
-- screening and diagnostic tests, drugs, prevention programs
and so on -- on patient health, quality of life, financial costs
and other potential outcomes. Its simulations are designed to
answer complex yet practical medical questions for healthcare
providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and other
organizations in the U.S. and Europe.  Archimedes recently
implemented Hadoop and Univa's Grid Engine software to speed up
its healthcare modeling system, and to cut its hardware and
software costs by up to 50%. Here's how i