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VIDEO: Big data has potential to change management of cardiometabolic disorders
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PHILADELPHIA — In this video exclusive, Michael Snyder, PhD, chair of the department of genetics at Stanford University, highlights the potential of big data in health.
Snyder discusses the need for a proactive, rather than reactive, focus in medicine, using advanced technologies and other aspects of big data to take measurements — for example, DNA sequencing and deep profiling of blood and urine — while people are healthy to follow them at an individual level and ultimately keep them healthy.
“By bringing all of these new technologies [to the forefront], we can actually get a … better picture of your health and be able to catch disease early when it happens, and even prevent it in the first place, we hope,” Snyder told Healio.
Watch the video for more.