Finding the missing link for big biomedical data

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 2479-2480

  Weber, Griffin M ^a,b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,c   Kohane, Isaac S ^a,c  

^a Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIG BIOMEDICAL DATA; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SECURITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS;

EID: 84902799705     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.4228     Document Type: Short Survey

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