This appeared during the week:Big data project offers ‘better return’ on health servicesThe Australian12:00AM November 30, 2017In a world first, medical data from an entire generation of Victorian babies will be pooled to fast-track research into diseases like autism, depression and obesity.Parents of all children born in the state in 2020 and 2021 will be invited to join the “Gen V” project and help transform Victoria into a “living laboratory”.The initiative’s architects say it will accumulate medical information at the scale needed to tackle big health issues, allowing researchers to analyse existing data rather than being forced to recruit medical trial participants from scratch.Up to 160,000 Victorian children will be included in the project, which will aim to keep imposts on parents to a minimum. “It’s basically business as usual for them,” said project leader Melissa Wake of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.“It’s about working through existing services and data as much...
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