Big data and LASSO improve health insurance risk prediction

FAYETTEVILLE, GA, UNITED STATES, February 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A study in Risk Sciences examines whether ...
Medical Xpress

Using machine learning and big data in academic medicine

Two new studies from the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai are advancing what we know about using machine learning and big data to improve health care and medical research. Both ...

Big data and human height: Scientists develop algorithm to boost biobank data retrieval and analysis

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...
News Medical

Billing codes in big data often misidentify diagnoses

Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified, new UCLA-led research finds. Databases frequently used for medical research ...
Time

Big Data Can Make America Healthier. Here’s How to Do It Right

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform ...
EurekAlert!

Slicing and dictionaries: a new approach to medical big data

Medical databases are undergoing rapid expansion, with the number of observed values and variable types continuously increasing, resulting in increasingly rich data content. This growth leads to a ...