health records

The agency says it has taken various steps to ensure the privacy of participants’ data. 

The genomic entrepreneur has struck a deal with a South African health insurer to sequence the exomes of its customers.

Clinical researchers need programming support to streamline their work, minimize error in the data, and find new trends that can point to better treatments.

Despite increasing use of electronic medical records, much patient data remains in text form, requiring text-mining techniques to make full use of patient information.

Giving researchers access to the health records of 52 million people in England could prove invaluable to biomedical scientists.