A $3 trillion challenge to computational scientists: Transforming healthcare delivery

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 82-87

  Saria, Suchi ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Data; biomedical informatics; computational science; health informatics; intelligent systems; predictive models

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS; HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; PREDICTIVE MODELS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84907602126     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2014.58     Document Type: Article

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