Patricia Brennan, director of the National Library of Medicine, says data science crucial to improved healthcare
Data science is critical to driving innovation in healthcare, but it requires planning, communication and multi-level coordination for big data to be available, protected and usable in a way that can accelerate discoveries.
That means building new tools for data analysis, growing a workforce of data-savvy scientists, researchers and clinicians and shifting the thinking about science away from domains to more of a social value – work that is already underway across the National Institutes of Health, said Patricia Brennan, director of the National Library of Medicine, speaking Sept. 20 to University of Delaware students and faculty attending the Health and Big Data Forum.