Question

From video TEDx "Using Big Data to Improve Healthcare Services" YouTube

1. Discuss how big data being research, promoted, or utilized in the US Healthcare system?

Answer 1

Ans) Big data” started with many believable promises in health care, but unfortunately, clinical science is different from other disciplines with additional constraints of data quality, privacy, and regulatory policies.

- Discussion of these concepts in pursuit of a holistic solution that enables data driven findings to be translated in health care, from bench to bedside.

- The existing big data systems are still in their infancy, and without addressing these fundamental issues the health care big data may not achieve its full potential.

- To conclude that to make it to the next level, we need a larger cohort of institutions to share more complete, precise, and time stamped data as well as with greater willingness to invest in technologies for de-identifying private patient data for it to be shared broadly for scientific research. At the same time, as more and more “big data” systems are developed, the scientific and regulatory communities need to figure out new ways of understanding causal relationship from data captured during routine health care, that would complement current gold standard methods such as RCTs as well as identify the relationship between clinical practice and outcomes, as there is a wide disparity in the quality of care across the country.