From 13th to 15th August 2014, the 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration took place in San Francisco, USA. Sabrina Neururer had the chance to present the accepted paper entitled “Towards a Technology Roadmap for Big Data Applications in the Healthcare Domain” to a broad public on the first day of the conference. Very good feedback was received that confirmed the results of the presented study and highlighted the huge impact of Big Data applications on the healthcare domain. Technical challenges, such as semantic annotation, data sharing, data quality, privacy and security, and open R&D questions were discussed. Also non-technical challenges for Big Data Applications, such as user acceptance, were debated intensively.
