Big data meets public health

Big data meets public health

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Big Data Meets Public Health: Signal & Noise

CDC paper: Big data meets public health: human wellbeing can benefit from large scale data if large scale noise is minimized. 
Khoury MJ, et al., Science, November 27, 2014

CDC blog post: A public health approach to big data in the age of genomics-separating signal from noise

Recent insights

Big data and large sample size: a cautionary note on the potential for bias. 
Kaplan RM et al. Clin Transl Sci. 2014 Aug;7(4):342-6

Finding the missing link for big biomedical data. 
Weber GM, et al. JAMA. 2014 Jun 25;311(24):2479-80.

The ethics of translating high-throughput science into clinical practice.
Ossorio PN. Hastings Cent Rep. 2014 Sep;44(5):8-9

Big data for population-based cancer research: the integrated cancer information and surveillance system.
Meyer AM, et al. N C Med J. 2014 Jul-Aug;75(4):265-9.

Grants focus on leveraging biomedical big data 
Tracy Hampton, PhD JAMA. 2014;312(20):2082.

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