Public Health and Healthcare in the Context of Big Data

Dear Colleagues, 

Big data refers to the processing and analysis of massive data and storage using relevant algorithms to discover value from the massive data and serve life and production. It covers a wide range of areas, including medical information, environmental information, financial information, social information and other aspects. It is important to note that big data is only a basic resource, and its value can only be revealed after being processed, so it is especially important to better process and utilize big data. As such, the advent of big data era generates the requirement to an analysis of tremendous volumes of big data in many fields, particularly in public health and healthcare fields. With the spread of the new coronavirus pneumonia, there is a growing concern about public health and health care. Public health is about the health of the people in a country or a region. High quality studies of medical big data help public health officials better perform their job and make professional decisions with solid evidence. These studies also equip healthcare providers with evidence-based tools in the control, prevention and management of specific diseases. Methods such as systematic evaluation and systematic analysis are being widely used by an increasing number of researchers and medical practitioners. Therefore, big data in medicine should receive equal attention from researchers in terms of data mining, storage, sharing, security and ethical issues. For this reason, we propose the topic of “Public Health and Healthcare in the Context of Big Data” and welcome original research and article submissions from scholars.

The contents that can be covered include but are not limited to:

• Applications and challenges in public health in the context of big data
• Application of big data in health in the context of internet and medicine
• Status of application of big data in healthcare
• Public right to know and privacy protection in public health emergencies in the context of big data
• The role of META analysis in disease prevention and control
• Emergency management of public health emergencies
• Mining of big data for accurate management of public health events
• Big data-driven public health risk monitoring
• Establishment of healt care databases
• Various applications of public health and health care data
• Health risk assessment based on big data

Dr. Mingzhe Ma
Dr. Xi Yang
Prof. Dr. Ruogu Qi
Topic Editors