Medical Data Sharing, Harmonization and Analytics

Download or read book Medical Data Sharing, Harmonization and Analytics written by Vasileios Pezoulas and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Data Sharing, Harmonization and Analytics serves as the basis for understanding the rapidly evolving field of medical data harmonization combined with the latest cloud infrastructures for storing the harmonized (shared) data. Chapters cover the latest research and applications on data sharing and protection in the medical domain, cohort integration through the recent advancements in data harmonization, cloud computing for storing and securing the patient data, and data analytics for effectively processing the harmonized data. - Examines the unmet needs in chronic diseases as a part of medical data sharing - Discusses ethical, legal and privacy issues as part of data protection - Combines data harmonization and big data analytics strategies in shared medical data, along with relevant case studies in chronic diseases