NIH Funds Health Centers to Tackle Big Data Challenges

Healthcare Informatics: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has invested $32 million in its Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative in an effort to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets.

The funding will establish 12 centers that will each tackle specific data science challenges—including how researchers can share data gleaned from electronic medical records (EMRs) without compromising the privacy of patients.

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