TRANSFORMING BIG DATA INTO BETTER HEALTH
‘ Tackling health challenges demands an approach that requires an integration of multi-layered health information and an elaborate ecosystem ’ individual environments and lifestyles .
It was also recognized that the main challenge for transformation of data into knowledge to improve health at the individual and population levels requires new analytical tools to discover novel relationships and patterns in a very heterogeneous data set .
Developing such an ecosystem in Europe relies on data sharing between multiple stakeholders , from public and private organizations involved in biomedical R & D to other disciplines ( for example ICT , social sciences ) that must put citizens and patients at its center .
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