New Research Field Big Data & Digital Health
11 December 2017, by Andrea Bükow
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Increasing digitalization leads to greater availability of bigger and newer data sets, which furthermore opens up new and exciting research questions.
Within the research field ‘Big Data & Digital Health’ methods and analysis of big data sets should be developed and also applied to important questions in health economics.
The research field includes methodical and applied areas:
1) Fundamental research/methods: further development of procedures of machine learning and artificial intelligence; especially to estimate causal effects
2) Applied research:
a. Application of modern methods of machine learning of data sets from the health care sector
b. Analysis of the impact of digitalization on the health care market, i.a. telemedicine