Becker's Healthcare August 30, 2019
Most modern healthcare innovation relies heavily on the collection and analysis of massive amounts of patient data, but in order to pursue even more impactful innovation, researchers and clinicians must fully understand the advantages of this big data approach.
In a commentary article in The Lancet Digital Health, two genomics researchers from Stanford University’s Snyder Lab described the steps needed to utilize big data to its fullest extent.
Systems for the collection and analysis of health data will need to be standardized, easily interpreted and fully secured, they wrote, and the public will need to be fully educated about the benefits of committing to sharing their information. Additionally, clinicians and researchers must understand what makes...