Read And Reflect On: Mining Electronic Health Records: Towards Better Research Applications And Clinical Care.

Please read this paper and answer a few questions in your own words (do not copy and paste text from the article): Jensen, P., Jensen, L. & Brunak, S. Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care. Nat Rev Genet 13, 395–405 (2012) doi:10.1038/nrg3208 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3208

 

Questions:

1. What types of data are available in electronic health records?

2, Which medical applications can benefit from data mining and machine learning on EHR data?

3. What are the technical challenges are researchers who wish to analyze large amounts of patient data are still faced with?

4. What are the key problems to overcome for mining electronic health records towards better research applications and clinical care?

5. What are your major takeaways from this article?