Big Questions for "big Data"

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 237-239

  Wears, Robert L ^a,b   Williams, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SOCIAL MEDIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84955697919     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.09.019     Document Type: Editorial

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