Research and describe the importance of big data in public health practice. Also describe how big data relates to your future career goal and/or possible research interest.
What is Big Data?
Large amounts of data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, relationships, characteristics, trends, etc
Used to predict human behaviors, such as health outcomes or disease
Where is Big Data in Health?
Every time there is a clinical point of contact
Insurance companies to predict risky patient behaviors
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Publicly available (Not necessarily free)
Examples of how big data is being used in Health:
Hospitals in Paris combined 10 years of data to predict what times to expect most patients and thus create better work shifts.
EHR system: includes patient-specific data and demographics, medical history, laboratory tests results, allergies, etc. Kaiser uses EHR across all facilities and saved $1 Billion in healthcare costs
Asthmapolis: tracks asthma attacks through GPS tracking and looks for triggers and created improved treatments for specific subgroups.
Many more…
You assignment is to answer the following questions
1) Research Big Data in the Inland Empire.
Identify a current social determinant of health that is affecting a particular community within the Inland Empire.
Example: African-American MSM, Latinx MSM, and Women of color have most recently been impacted by HIV new infections in the Coachella Valley.
Provide what was identified based on the needs of the community.