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01/14/2020

Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.

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Public Policy Recs Updated for Familial Hypercholesterolemia- Goals include enhancing awareness of familial hypercholesterolemia as a global public health issue
Health day, January 2020

The global call-to-action recommendations include enhancing awareness regarding the importance of severe hypercholesterolemia and FH as a global public health issue. Awareness should be raised in a range of constituencies, including the general public, educational institutions, the general medical community, and health care delivery systems.

What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?
SP Rowland et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, January 13, 2020

The study categorizes apps according to their functionality (e.g. preventative behavior change, digital self-management of a specific condition, diagnostic) and discusses evidence for effectiveness from published systematic reviews and meta-analyses and the relevance to patient care.

Treating health disparities with artificial intelligence
IY Chen et al, Nature Medicine, January 13, 2020

Healthcare is an imperfect practice, with disparities in care reflecting those in society. While algorithms may be misued to amplify biases, they may also be used to identify and correct disparities.

Big hopes for big data
Nature Medicine editorial, January 13, 2020

Large-scale multi-modal information on patients’ health is ever increasing, providing an opportunity to use big data for taking individualized medicine to a global scale.

Sizing up big data
MA Banks, Nature Medicine, January 13, 2020

Just how big is big data? The numbers may surprise you. Big data—as opposed to small data—is too complex and varied to be contained in one spreadsheet or sometimes even in one computer. But while there might be slight differences in what precisely defines ‘big data’, the one thing everyone can agree on is that there is more of it these days .


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