Data over here, Data over there, Data everywhere...

We live in an an age where there is probably more data compiled about a newborn child in it's first 1yr of life than was compiled about their great grand parent in their entire lives! Imagine collecting health data for the nearly 4.25M kids that are born in the US a year and then doing absolutely nothing with it. No studies on mortality rates, no studies on child development, no alerts on outbreaks effecting this new population...Nada. Preposterous? Yup. Ludicrous? U huh. Down right dumb? "It is decidedly so". Well...