Taiwan Biobank: Making cross-database convergence possible in the Big Data era

GigaScience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-4

  Lin, Jui Chu ^a   Fan, Chien Te ^b   Liao, Chia Cheng ^c   Chen, Yao Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Saint Island International Patent and Law Offices   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biobank; EMR; Linkage; Precision medicine

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; BIOPSY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN BIOBANK; BIOBANK; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ETHICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; TAIWAN;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOPSY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PRECISION MEDICINE; TAIWAN;

EID: 85044593092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/gix110     Document Type: Note

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