Risk, Benefit, and Fairness in a Big Data World

There is much hope and even more hype that research using big data derived from a large volume of electronic health records, in combination with claims and a variety of health-related sources, can improve the access to, quality of, and cost of health care. The ability of computers to learn from large databases to the point that they can outperform clinicians could result in lower health care costs and improve access and quality. But patients could foil these efforts by refusing to share their data for research if they perceive more harms than benefits.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research