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Learning from Patients’ Health Records

Researchers are bringing machine learning to the clinic

Physicians are forever recording information about their patients. They take vital signs, order lab tests and imaging, prescribe medications, check boxes to define patients’ diagnoses for...
EHRs, machine learning, translational medicine
Oct, 27, 2016
Disease Detectives: BD2K Center Researchers Sleuth for Early Signs of Disease

Exceptional computational detective work has the potential to reshape our understanding of when and why diseases strike

Relevant NIH Institutes: NCI, NHLBI, NIAMS, NIA, NINDS, NCATS, and all other disease-focused Institutes   Most people don’t know that they’re sick until they feel, for lack of a...
Jun, 14, 2017
Can Big Data Stop Opioid Abuse?

Armed with electronic health records and insurance claim information, data scientists are trying to predict who’s going to become addicted to opioids—and stop them before it’s too late.

A person who is overdosing on opioids exhibits telltale signs: a limp body, slowed breathing and heart rate, and blueish or purplish fingernails and lips. But millions more who live with an opioid...
Nov, 16, 2017
Text Mining: How the BD2K Centers are Making Knowledge Accessible

State-of-the-art approaches are a boon to biomedicine

Relevant NIH Institutes:  NHGRI, NIBIB, NLM, and all disease-focused institutes including NCI, NHLBI, NIDDK, NINDS, NIAID, and NIAMS   Since the 1960s, biologists have manually curated...
Jun, 21, 2017
Career Paths

A Seller’s Market for Biomedical Data Science Jobs

Just pondering the current job market for biomedical data scientists is likely to put a smile on the faces of many in the field. “The bottom line is, compared to other disciplines,...
Oct, 07, 2015
NIH Launches a United Ecosystem for Big Data

12 Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence funded

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), says he used to feel “data envy” toward the field of physics. In those days, “no one would have...
Big data, NIH funding
Jan, 08, 2015
Taking on the Exposome

How bioinformatics tools are bringing insight to the environmental side of the health equation

When it comes to what kills people, Nurture trumps Nature: Chronic diseases with overwhelmingly environmental (rather than genetic) causes are responsible for the deaths of two-thirds of the world...
Exposome
Nov, 01, 2016

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