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Making sense of big data in health research: Towards an EU action plan.
Auffray, Charles; Balling, Rudi; Barroso, Ines et al.
2016In Genome Medicine, 8 (1), p. 71
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Abstract :
[en] Medicine and healthcare are undergoing profound changes. Whole-genome sequencing and high-resolution imaging technologies are key drivers of this rapid and crucial transformation. Technological innovation combined with automation and miniaturization has triggered an explosion in data production that will soon reach exabyte proportions. How are we going to deal with this exponential increase in data production? The potential of "big data" for improving health is enormous but, at the same time, we face a wide range of challenges to overcome urgently. Europe is very proud of its cultural diversity; however, exploitation of the data made available through advances in genomic medicine, imaging, and a wide range of mobile health applications or connected devices is hampered by numerous historical, technical, legal, and political barriers. European health systems and databases are diverse and fragmented. There is a lack of harmonization of data formats, processing, analysis, and data transfer, which leads to incompatibilities and lost opportunities. Legal frameworks for data sharing are evolving. Clinicians, researchers, and citizens need improved methods, tools, and training to generate, analyze, and query data effectively. Addressing these barriers will contribute to creating the European Single Market for health, which will improve health and healthcare for all Europeans.
Disciplines :
Public health, health care sciences & services
Author, co-author :
Auffray, Charles
Balling, Rudi ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
Barroso, Ines
Bencze, Laszlo
Benson, Mikael
Bergeron, Jay
Bernal-Delgado, Enrique
Blomberg, Niklas
Bock, Christoph
Conesa, Ana
Del Signore, Susanna
Delogne, Christophe
Devilee, Peter
Di Meglio, Alberto
Eijkemans, Marinus
Flicek, Paul
Graf, Norbert
Grimm, Vera
Guchelaar, Henk-Jan
Guo, Yi-Ke
Gut, Ivo Glynne
Hanbury, Allan
Hanif, Shahid
Hilgers, Ralf-Dieter
Honrado, Angel
Hose, D. Rod
Houwing-Duistermaat, Jeanine
Hubbard, Tim
Janacek, Sophie Helen
Karanikas, Haralampos
Kievits, Tim
Kohler, Manfred
Kremer, Andreas
Lanfear, Jerry
Lengauer, Thomas
Maes, Edith
Meert, Theo
Muller, Werner
Nickel, Dorthe
Oledzki, Peter
Pedersen, Bertrand
Petkovic, Milan
Pliakos, Konstantinos
Rattray, Magnus
I Mas, Josep Redon
Schneider, Reinhard ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
Sengstag, Thierry
Serra-Picamal, Xavier
Spek, Wouter
Vaas, Lea A. I.
van Batenburg, Okker
Vandelaer, Marc
Varnai, Peter
Villoslada, Pablo
Vizcaino, Juan Antonio
Wubbe, John Peter Mary
Zanetti, Gianluigi
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External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Making sense of big data in health research: Towards an EU action plan.
Publication date :
2016
Journal title :
Genome Medicine
ISSN :
1756-994X
Publisher :
BioMed Central, United Kingdom
Volume :
8
Issue :
1
Pages :
71
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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