Journal
JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 477-484Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12159
Keywords
Big data; clinical information; data science
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Funding
- vizHome: a context sensitive health information needs assessment strategy [R01HS02254]
- Smart Asthma Management (NSF) [1343969]
- WICER 4 U [R01HS022961]
- New York City Hispanic Dementia Caregiver Research Program [R01NR14430]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [1343969] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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PurposeContemporary big data initiatives in health care will benefit from greater integration with nursing science and nursing practice; in turn, nursing science and nursing practice has much to gain from the data science initiatives. Big data arises secondary to scholarly inquiry (e.g., -omics) and everyday observations like cardiac flow sensors or Twitter feeds. Data science methods that are emerging ensure that these data be leveraged to improve patient care. Organizing ConstructBig data encompasses data that exceed human comprehension, that exist at a volume unmanageable by standard computer systems, that arrive at a velocity not under the control of the investigator and possess a level of imprecision not found in traditional inquiry. Data science methods are emerging to manage and gain insights from big data. MethodsThe primary methods included investigation of emerging federal big data initiatives, and exploration of exemplars from nursing informatics research to benchmark where nursing is already poised to participate in the big data revolution. We provide observations and reflections on experiences in the emerging big data initiatives. ConclusionsExisting approaches to large data set analysis provide a necessary but not sufficient foundation for nursing to participate in the big data revolution. Nursing's Social Policy Statement guides a principled, ethical perspective on big data and data science. There are implications for basic and advanced practice clinical nurses in practice, for the nurse scientist who collaborates with data scientists, and for the nurse data scientist. Clinical RelevanceBig data and data science has the potential to provide greater richness in understanding patient phenomena and in tailoring interventional strategies that are personalized to the patient.
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