The Use of Big Data to Improve Human Health: How Experience From other Industries Will Shape the Future.

WHAT IT FOUND

This article discusses how data science in healthcare differs from other industries, noting that health data science focuses on causality and discrete studies while other fields focus on prediction and product integration.

It reports no clinical outcomes.

What this paper is

This is a theoretical discussion comparing the culture of data science in healthcare to other industries like finance and manufacturing. It describes differences in how data is used, analyzed, and integrated into products, but reports no clinical trial results, patient outcomes, or evidence for any specific treatment. There is no finding here to change your practice on.

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