The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and interviews with keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on the Stanford Medicine YouTube channel. To continue the discussion of how big data can be harnessed to benefit human health, we'll be featuring a selection of the videos this month on Scope.
At this year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Michele Barry, MD, FACP, senior associate dean and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford, moderated a panel on infectious diseases. During the discussion, she raised the point that the lines between infectious disease and non-communicable disease are becoming increasingly blurred.
In the above video, Barry expands on this point and offers her point of view on the role big data can play in advancing global health solutions. "Big Data is clearly important these days to get a larger picture of population health," say says. "What I'm concerned about, and would love to see happen, is for big data surveillance to happen in developing countries and under-served areas, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa." Watch Barry's interview to understand how harnessing big data to improve preventative care for large populations could benefit all of us.
Previously: Stanford statistician Chiara Sabatti on teaching students to “ride the big data wave”, Using Google Glass to help individuals with autism better understand social cues, Rising to the challenge of harnessing big data to benefit patients and U.S. Chief Technology Officer kicks off Big Data in Biomedicine
