Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Accurate person identity data is one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare today. The stakes are high; merge the wrong records, and you create a privacy risk; fail to link the right ones, and ...

One of the most conspicuous examples of big data in action is Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trends (GFT). The program is designed to provide real-time monitoring of flu cases around the ...