For each of Duke Health’s hundreds of thousands of patients, the institution keeps an exhaustive record of valuable health data.
Every medication they’ve been prescribed, every blood pressure reading or temperature recorded, every diagnosis given, every doctor’s note and images from every MRI or X-ray are all cataloged in Duke’s electronic medical database.
Earlier this month, Duke partnered with a Massachusetts-based machine learning company, nference, to remove identifying information from this trove of patient data and ultimately build a library that is easy for researchers to analyze and search.
