How to Transform Big Data into Better Health (March 2015)

A newly-released report by Science Europe’s Scientific Committee for Medical Sciences makes a number of recommendations on the topic of ‘How to Transform Big Data into Better Health: Envisioning a Health Big Data Ecosystem for Advancing Biomedical Research and Improving Health Outcomes in Europe’. The report – which consolidates the outcomes of a two day workshop co-hosted with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) on 24 and 25 November 2015 at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Italy – identifies and acknowledges the challenges in achieving the stated objective and makes a number of key recommendations…