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International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

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Big data are coming to psychiatry: a general introduction

Authors: Scott Monteith, Tasha Glenn, John Geddes, Michael Bauer

Published in: International Journal of Bipolar Disorders | Issue 1/2015

Abstract

Big data are coming to the study of bipolar disorder and all of psychiatry. Data are coming from providers and payers (including EMR, imaging, insurance claims and pharmacy data), from omics (genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data), and from patients and non-providers (data from smart phone and Internet activities, sensors and monitoring tools). Analysis of the big data will provide unprecedented opportunities for exploration, descriptive observation, hypothesis generation, and prediction, and the results of big data studies will be incorporated into clinical practice. Technical challenges remain in the quality, analysis and management of big data. This paper discusses some of the fundamental opportunities and challenges of big data for psychiatry.

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Title: Big data are coming to psychiatry: a general introduction
Authors: Scott Monteith
Tasha Glenn
John Geddes
Michael Bauer
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: International Journal of Bipolar Disorders / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 2194-7511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-015-0038-9

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