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Dementia research and care : can big data help?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Anderson, Geoff Oderkirk, Jillian |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | From September 14-15, 2014, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in partnership with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (IHPME) and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI), hosted an event supported by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, exploring the role that big data can play in improving dementia research and care. This event was composed of a workshop which had 60 participants as well as a public talk which had 250 attendees. Big data – tapping into the huge volumes of information that are generated by our increasingly computerized health and care systems – has the potential to accelerate the evaluation of treatments and care models, and generate insights into system performance. The workshop explored how this can be applied to dementia and identified next steps in unlocking the potential and advancing data-driven innovation. The workshop led to a TVO interview of a panel which consisted of: |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Addressing-Dementia-Research-and-Care-Workshop-Agenda.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://alzheimer.ca/sites/default/files/files/national/research/conference_2014_brownstuss_e.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |