AI in Healthcare June 22, 2021
NC3, the NIH-spurred effort to grow a national COVID database from far-flung local siloes, has already yielded an impressive harvest: almost 600 million clinical observations of nearly 6.5 million patients seen at 56 sites.
The effort is ongoing, so those numbers are still ticking up. The data are secure, the patients de-identified and the access controlled. Which begs a question:
Did we really need a pandemic to produce a national healthcare database that’s secure, private and exclusively available to medical researchers?
No matter. We have one now.
MIT Technology Review looks at the encouraging story behind—and in front of—the National COVID Cohort Collaborative.
“It’s just shocking that we had no harmonized, aggregate health data for research in the face of...
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