Big data can improve health but first we need to build the foundations
'Data is the new oil of the 21st century,' says Dr Julian Elliott, Senior Research Fellow at the Australasian Cochrane Centre, 'but it's not the engines, factories or transport systems. Their digital equivalents are being built now and how we – individuals, corporations, governments and societies – build these systems, products and services will have far-reaching consequences, in health as in other sectors.'