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National Institutes of Health Grants $7 Million for Big Data to Knowledge Initiative
Jul. 21, 2015 09:50AM PST
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The National Institutes of Health granted nearly $7 million for its Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiatice, which is intended to fund projects on data provenance. Case Western Reserve University, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University were all awarded funding.
The National Institutes of Health granted nearly $7 million for its Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, which is intended to fund projects on data provenance. Case Western Reserve University, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University were all awarded funding.
According to the article in MedCityNews:
The smallest grant, slightly more than $900,000, went to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland to build and test an engine for managing data provenance.
Healthcare data often is inconsistent, making it difficult to integrate information from disparate sources. […] The hope is that this provenance project will help standardize and reconcile inconsistencies so clinicians have better data to bring to the bedside and run through clinical decision support systems.