There’s research gold in the data hills

The Australian Research Data Commons suggests Australia spends $1bn a year on clinical trials and “hundreds of millions” more on clinical and health research. Bu too often data lies dormant once projects are complete.

The ARDC says this need not be. “With the accelerating advances in harmonised data and analytics, further investment in expanding the digital infrastructure can realise significant additional value from these datasets.”

This will take some organising and the ARDC is combining with CSIRO to present a seminar today fortnight in Sydney to consider, ethics, governance and other issues for a data sharing network.

The Commons make it clear It’s for the medical research community “ONLY.”  But not to worry, we lesser mortals can always do the University of Sydney and partners’ new MOOC (via Coursera) on clinical health data, which started yesterday.