Big data's role in precision public health

S Dolley - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Precision public health is an emerging practice to more granularly predict and understand
public health risks and customize treatments for more specific and homogeneous …

Big data in healthcare: What is it used for?

R Hermon, PAH Williams - 2014 - ro.ecu.edu.au
Big data analytics is a growth area with the potential to provide useful insight in healthcare.
Whilst many dimensions of big data still present issues in its use and adoption, such as …

Convergence of precision medicine and public health into precision public health: toward a big data perspective

PE Velmovitsky, T Bevilacqua, P Alencar… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The field of precision medicine explores disease treatments by looking at genetic, socio-
environmental, and clinical factors, thus trying to provide a holistic view of a person's health …

Commentary: epidemiology in the era of big data

SJ Mooney, DJ Westreich, AM El-Sayed - Epidemiology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Big Data has increasingly been promoted as a revolutionary development in the future of
science, including epidemiology. However, the definition and implications of Big Data for …

Big data in public health: terminology, machine learning, and privacy

SJ Mooney, V Pejaver - Annual review of public health, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The digital world is generating data at a staggering and still increasing rate. While these “big
data” have unlocked novel opportunities to understand public health, they hold still greater …

Leveraging big data and analytics for enhanced public health decision-making: A global review

AO Adenyi, CA Okolo, T Olorunsogo… - GSC Advanced …, 2024 - gsconlinepress.com
In recent years, the proliferation of big data and analytics technologies has revolutionized
various sectors, including public health. This review presents a comprehensive review of …

Big data-driven public health policy making: Potential for the healthcare industry

K Chao, MNI Sarker, I Ali, RBR Firdaus, A Azman… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The use of healthcare data analytics is anticipated to play a significant role in future public
health policy formulation. Therefore, this study examines how big data analytics (BDA) may …

Big Data and Disease Prevention: From Quantified Self to Quantified Communities

MA Barrett, O Humblet, RA Hiatt, NE Adler - Big data, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Big data is often discussed in the context of improving medical care, but it also has a less
appreciated but equally important role to play in preventing disease. Big data can facilitate …

Values, challenges and future directions of big data analytics in healthcare: A systematic review

P Galetsi, K Katsaliaki, S Kumar - Social science & medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence of powerful software has created conditions and approaches for large
datasets to be collected and analyzed which has led to informed decision-making towards …

Putting the data before the algorithm in big data addressing personalized healthcare

EM Cahan, T Hernandez-Boussard… - NPJ Digital …, 2019 - nature.com
Technologies leveraging big data, including predictive algorithms and machine learning, are
playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of healthcare. However, evidence …