Mental Health and Big Data: A Step in the Right Direction


  • Kate Spade – depression and anxiety
  • Robin Williams – severe depression
  • Pete Davidson – Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Demi Lovato – Bipolar disorder

Two gone, two battling a lifelong battle, like many Americans. With the stigma and bias surrounding the topic, the mental health community struggles to move forward. The research and treatment is at least a decade behind common chronic conditions, mainly because no one wants to talk about mental health due to the complexity and lack of understanding. 

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Getting the Most Out of Longitudinal Patient Data

Anonymous patient-level data (APLD) is data collected in real time from an individual patient. There has been an increasing interest in patient-level data, as researchers, healthcare providers, and pharmaceutical companies are realizing the potential of creating better comparisons of effective treatment outcomes by analyzing long-term data that represent individual patient-based experiences.

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