As a rapid emerging interdisciplinary field, the science of big data is playing a disruptive role in many sectors in recent years. The application of big data science is considered as strategically important to many established sectors of science and business world.
The big-data has the unique advantage in capturing the trend and formulating the national strategies. Medicine, as a vital important variable of social development, should serve as the backbone of big data science. But for a very long time, medical data have been isolated in various medical institutions. The development of real-world medical big data has stagnated due to the difficult access to data. Without the integration with real-world big medical data, it is hard to achieve precision medicine only based genomic data research. In the world arena, even in the developed countries, such as the United States, the real-world big medical data is difficult to achieve due to the segmentation of healthcare system. In China, the large population, universal coverage of national Medicare system and strong government/policy leverage provides a unique opportunity for China to lead the development of science of big data in medicine. In this report, the essential characteristics of big data in medicine will be elaborated with real-world shown cases, which will focus on the current situation and future development of science and application of big data in medicine in China.
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