Journal
HEALTH POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 211-216Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2018.04.006
Keywords
Health policy; Analytics; Electronic health records; Clinical care; Costs
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- Commonwealth Fund (New York, NY)
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The term big data has gotten increasing popular attention, and there is growing focus on how such data can be used to measure and improve health and healthcare. Analytic techniques for extracting information from these data have grown vastly more powerful, and they are now broadly available. But for these approaches to be most useful, large amounts of data must be available, and barriers to use should be low. We discuss how smart cities are beginning to invest in this area to improve the health of their populations; provide examples around model approaches for making large quantities of data available to researchers and clinicians among other stakeholders; discuss the current state of big data approaches to improve clinical care including specific examples, and then discuss some of the policy issues around and examples of successful regulatory approaches, including deidentification and privacy protection. (C) 2018 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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