How to extract real, practical value from big healthcare data is the theme of the Big Data conference being held in Sydney later this month, organised by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA).

With an opening address by Zoran Bolevich, the acting CEO/CIO of eHealth NSW, Big Data will feature representatives from a number of jurisdictions and academic institutions as well as overseas speakers, including Isaac Kohane of the Centre for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.