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Published October 2015 | Submitted
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From stars to patients: Lessons from space science and astrophysics for health care informatics

Abstract

Big Data are revolutionizing nearly every aspect of the modern society. One area where this can have a profound positive societal impact is the field of Health Care Informatics (HCI), which faces many challenges. The key idea behind this study is: can we use some of the experience and technical and methodological solutions from the fields that have successfully adapted to the Big Data era, namely astronomy and space science, to help accelerate the progress of HCI? We illustrate this with examples from the Virtual Observatory framework, and the NCI EDRN project. An effective sharing and reuse of tools, methods, and experiences from different fields can save a lot of effort, time, and expense. HCI can thus benefit from the proven solutions to big data challenges from other domains.

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© 2015 by IEEE. This work was supported in part by a grant from the Electronic Data Methods Forum (EDMF; http://www.edm-forum.org), by the Center for Data-Driven Discovery at Caltech (CD3;http://cd3.caltech.edu), and by the Center for Data Science and technology at JPL (http://datascience.jpl.nasa.gov).

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