"StrataRx online conference 2012" entries
Discovering genetic associations using large data
David Heckerman's research uses big datasets to tackle essential health questions.
David Heckerman from Microsoft Research presents a summary of his work in the session “Discovering Genetic Associations on Large Data.” This was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine, a preview of O’Reilly’s conference Strata Rx, highlighting the use of data in medical research and delivery.
Heckerman’s research attempts to answer essential questions such as “What is your propensity for getting a particular disease?” and “How are you likely to react to a particular drug?”
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Advanced analytics for all in the health care system
Arijit Sengupta on the benefits of making health care analytics widely accessible within an organization.
Arijit Sengupta presents a summary of his work as the CEO of BeyondCore in the presentation “Advanced Analytics for All: Enabling business users to act on length of stay patterns at a leading hospital system.” This presentation was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine, a preview of O’Reilly’s conference Strata Rx, highlighting the use of data in medical research and delivery.
Sengupta’s vision is to bring analytics to people throughout an organization who can use them in their work. He hopes to bring analytics that have traditionally been available only to those at the top of a large organization down to those making everyday decisions. Users of analytics should not need to know statistics or computer science. In this presentation, he shows how hospital employees can correlate the length of a hospital stay with other variables.
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Privacy concerns and regulatory challenges in personalized medicine
Ann Waldo examines obstacles to patient data and offers specific reforms that can help.
Ann Waldo, a partner in Wittie, Letsche & Waldo, LLP in Washington, DC, presents a summary of her work in the webcast “Overview of Privacy Concerns and Regulatory Challenges Concerning Personalized Medicine — and Some Modest Suggestions for Change.” This was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine, a preview of O’Reilly’s conference Strata Rx, highlighting the use of data in medical research and delivery.
Waldo highlighted how HIPAA regulations and other laws passed by federal and state governments contain restrictions that make research with patient data unnecessarily difficult. She offers several suggestions for reform.
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