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India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country
INTRODUCTION: Big data and growth in telecommunications have increased the enormous promise of an informatics approach to health care. India and the United Kingdom are two countries facing these challenges of implementing learning health systems and big data health research. ANALYSIS: At present, th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10074 |
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author | Bandopadhyay, Souvik Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhakaran, Dorairaj Taylor, Paul Banerjee, Amitava |
author_facet | Bandopadhyay, Souvik Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhakaran, Dorairaj Taylor, Paul Banerjee, Amitava |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Big data and growth in telecommunications have increased the enormous promise of an informatics approach to health care. India and the United Kingdom are two countries facing these challenges of implementing learning health systems and big data health research. ANALYSIS: At present, these opportunities are more likely to be exploited in the private sector or in public‐private partnerships (eg, Public Health Foundation of India [PHFI]) than public sector ventures alone. In both India and the United Kingdom, the importance of health informatics (HIs), a relatively new discipline, is being recognised and there are national initiatives in academic and health sectors to fill gaps in big data health research. The challenges are in many ways greater in India but outweighed by three potential benefits in health‐related scientific research: (a) increased productivity; (b) a learning health system with better use of data and better health outcomes; and (c) to fill workforce gaps in both research and practice. CONCLUSIONS: Despite several system‐level obstacles, in India, big data research in health care can improve the status quo, whether in terms of patient outcomes or scientific discovery. Collaboration between India and the United Kingdom in HI can result in mutual benefits to academic and health care delivery organisations in both countries and can serve as examples to other countries embracing the promises and the pitfalls of health care research in the digital era. |
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spelling | pubmed-65088222019-06-26 India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country Bandopadhyay, Souvik Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhakaran, Dorairaj Taylor, Paul Banerjee, Amitava Learn Health Syst Commentary INTRODUCTION: Big data and growth in telecommunications have increased the enormous promise of an informatics approach to health care. India and the United Kingdom are two countries facing these challenges of implementing learning health systems and big data health research. ANALYSIS: At present, these opportunities are more likely to be exploited in the private sector or in public‐private partnerships (eg, Public Health Foundation of India [PHFI]) than public sector ventures alone. In both India and the United Kingdom, the importance of health informatics (HIs), a relatively new discipline, is being recognised and there are national initiatives in academic and health sectors to fill gaps in big data health research. The challenges are in many ways greater in India but outweighed by three potential benefits in health‐related scientific research: (a) increased productivity; (b) a learning health system with better use of data and better health outcomes; and (c) to fill workforce gaps in both research and practice. CONCLUSIONS: Despite several system‐level obstacles, in India, big data research in health care can improve the status quo, whether in terms of patient outcomes or scientific discovery. Collaboration between India and the United Kingdom in HI can result in mutual benefits to academic and health care delivery organisations in both countries and can serve as examples to other countries embracing the promises and the pitfalls of health care research in the digital era. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6508822/ /pubmed/31245602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10074 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Learning Health Systems published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the University of Michigan This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Bandopadhyay, Souvik Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhakaran, Dorairaj Taylor, Paul Banerjee, Amitava India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title | India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title_full | India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title_fullStr | India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title_full_unstemmed | India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title_short | India and the United Kingdom—What big data health research can do for a country |
title_sort | india and the united kingdom—what big data health research can do for a country |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10074 |
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