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. 2014 Nov 28;346(6213):1054-5.
doi: 10.1126/science.aaa2709.

Medicine. Big data meets public health

Muin J Khoury  1 , John P A Ioannidis  2
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Medicine. Big data meets public health

Muin J Khoury et al. Science. .
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Big Data can improve tracking and response to infectious disease outbreaks, discovery of early warning signals of disease, and development of diagnostic tests and therapeutics.
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  • Converting Big Data into public health.
    Fung IC, Tse ZT, Fu KW. Fung IC, et al. Science. 2015 Feb 6;347(6222):620. doi: 10.1126/science.347.6222.620-b. Science. 2015. PMID: 25657237 No abstract available.

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