Mastering the Data Haystack: Unifying Data Across Silos for New Insights

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016: 7:30 AM
Summit Hall 6, Egan Convention Center
Payam Etminani , Bitscopic Inc., LLC, Redwood City, CA
Farshid Sedghi , Bitscopic Inc., LLC, Redwood City, CA
Stacey Hoferka , Illinois Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL
Bryant T Karras , Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, WA
Cynthia Lucero-Obusan , Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Palo Alto, CA
Julie A Pavlin , Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD
Gina Oda , VHA Office of Public Health, Palo Alto, CA
Jim Collins , Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Lansing, MI

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Brief Summary:  Public health agencies need to take advantage of the huge and growing amount of health related data from diverse sources including EHRs, clinical labs, pharma, genomics, the web, and many more. Today, organization are looking at data in silos, analyzing one or a few data sets at a time. Often, epidemiologist need to cobble together information from different sources by hand. This session will explore the important benefits of looking at multiple data sets as a whole to see the correlations and gain new insights. Following the panel there will be a live demonstration of new technology that can be used to construct a unified view that spans diverse data sets.

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