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HealthFoo Ignite Talk: Let’s Flip the Chart

This ignite talk was prepared for HealthFoo 2013 in San Francisco, California, and is about the great variety of ways that “data” can be interpreted by the different participants in modern health care.

In the Battle Over Personal Health Data, 23andMe and the FDA Are Both Wrong

Just wrote for Slate’s Future Tense on the current regulator battles over personal health data.

Last month, the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits. The FDA wants assurance that the company has “analytically or clinically validated” the genetic data that they provide their customers. The company has claimed that it provides information and data, not medical advice, but this week it announced that for now, it will only sell “raw” genetic data analysis and ancestry reports, just not health interpretations.

Read more at Slate:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/_23andme_vs_the_fda_both_are_wrong.html

Why Big Data Won’t Cure Us

The biggest challenge for the use of “big data” in health care is social, not technical. Data-intensive approaches to medicine based on predictive modeling hold enormous potential for solving some of the biggest and most intractable problems of health care. The challenge now is figuring out how people, both patients and providers, will actually use data in practice.

Big Data, September 2013, 1(3): 117-123. doi:10.1089/big.2013.0029.