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Big data for bipolar disorder
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders volume 4, Article number: 10 (2016)
Abstract
The delivery of psychiatric care is changing with a new emphasis on integrated care, preventative measures, population health, and the biological basis of disease. Fundamental to this transformation are big data and advances in the ability to analyze these data. The impact of big data on the routine treatment of bipolar disorder today and in the near future is discussed, with examples that relate to health policy, the discovery of new associations, and the study of rare events. The primary sources of big data today are electronic medical records (EMR), claims, and registry data from providers and payers. In the near future, data created by patients from active monitoring, passive monitoring of Internet and smartphone activities, and from sensors may be integrated with the EMR. Diverse data sources from outside of medicine, such as government financial data, will be linked for research. Over the long term, genetic and imaging data will be integrated with the EMR, and there will be more emphasis on predictive models. Many technical challenges remain when analyzing big data that relates to size, heterogeneity, complexity, and unstructured text data in the EMR. Human judgement and subject matter expertise are critical parts of big data analysis, and the active participation of psychiatrists is needed throughout the analytical process.
Background
The frequency and importance of comorbid mental and chronic physical illness have emphasized the need for a change in the delivery of psychiatric care, including bipolar disorder (Melek et al. 2014, DeHert et al. 2011). Bipolar disorder is associated with poor functional outcome (Conus et al. 2014), considerable economic cost for society (Kleine-Budde et al. 2014; Young et al. 2011), and management is often complicated by medical comorbidity such as type II diabetes/insulin resistance (Calkin et al. 2015; Calkin and Alda 2015; Carney and Jones 2006). Responses to improve care delivery include integrating psychiatry with primary care (Butler et al. 2008; Manderscheid and Kathol 2014; Cerimele and Strain 2010; Katon et al. 2010), collaborative care measures (Woltmann et al. 2012), implementing preventive programs and quality measurements consistent with a population health perspective (Rose 2001; Mabry et al. 2008), and increasing emphasis on the genetic and neuroscience basis of mental illness (Insel 2009; Reynolds et al. 2009). Additionally, precision medicine initiatives are accelerating interdisciplinary research with a goal of tailoring psychiatric care to the individual (Insel 2014).
Big data and advances in the ability to analyze these data are fundamental to this evolving perspective of psychiatry (Monteith et al. 2015; NRC 2013). Big data can be conceptualized as heterogeneous data, unprecedented in size and complexity, lacking in structure, and coming from many sources (Monteith et al. 2015). The scale of big data in size and complexity makes it difficult to process, analyze, and extract useful information (Burkhardt 2014). Today, the primary source of big data in medicine is from providers and payers including electronic medical records (EMR) created by physicians, claims records, pharmacy records, and imaging. However, the data for analysis will keep expanding from omics, such as genomic, epigenomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data. Today, about 95 % of the data for each patient is generated by imaging (Hamalka 2011), and genomic data requires 50-fold greater storage per patient than imaging (Starren et al. 2013). Data will also be coming from non-traditional sources including patients and non-providers, from smartphone applications, sensors, and Internet activities (Glenn and Monteith 2014a). With the addition of data from patient devices, it is estimated that every person will generate more than 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of health information over a lifetime (IBM 2015a). IBM envisions a future in which 10 percent of medical data will be from medical records, 20 percent from genomics, and 70 % from patient-created sources (Slabodkin 2015). The amount of medical-related data in existence is expected to double in size every 2 years (IBM 2015b).
It is still early in the process of converting from paper to digital-based medicine. As with other industries, the main benefits will be related to future innovations and redefined work processes fostered by the technology, and increased software usability and usefulness (Fernald and Wang 2015; Landauer 1995). However, many initial benefits from digitizing data are already being seen today in the analysis of very large databases. The objective of this review is to discuss both the promises and challenges of using big data to improve the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder.
Data sources from providers and payers
There are many public and private sources of big data from EMR, claims/administrative data, and registries that are available for secondary use in medical research. These data sources were not designed for research and each has strengths and weaknesses, with differences in quality, completeness, and potential for bias. In the US, claims or administrative encounter data that providers (physicians, hospitals, labs, and pharmacies) submit for payment to insurers and the government provide the most complete picture of patient involvement with the healthcare system. Although standardized diagnostic and procedure codes are used, claims data lacks clinical detail such as test results. The diagnosis on a claim is only for the services performed on that date, and may be incorrect, incomplete, differential, or driven by reimbursement policies (Sarrazin and Rosenthal 2012; Wilson and Bock 2012; West et al. 2014; Overhage and Overhage 2013). The time lag for claims processing is often several months. About 17 % of commercially insured people in the US switch coverage each year posing challenges for longitudinal analysis (Sung 2015; Marketscan 2011).
In contrast to claims, EMR provide timely clinical details from the providers who use the software, especially related to patient management. The clinical data may include patient history and symptoms, multiple diagnoses including those unrelated to the current visit, physician assessment and treatment plan, disease severity, lab results, vital signs, non-prescription drugs and results of screening tools such as PHQ-9. Government mandates in the US have dramatically increased the use of EMR. About half of EMR text is unstructured data (Davenport 2014), and many challenges remain to automatically extract information from the rich but distinct vocabularies used throughout medicine (Dinov 2016; Ivanovic and Budimac 2014). Efforts are underway to address standardization with the goal of semantic interoperability of data from different providers and software systems (IHE 2015; HealthIT.gov 2015; Dinov 2016). There are other important quality issues in EMR data including inconsistency, redundancy, inaccuracy, missing data, interoperability between vendor products, and potential biases from measured and non-measured confounders (Monteith et al. 2015; Bayley et al. 2013; Kaplan et al. 2014; Hersh et al. 2013; Hripcsak et al. 2011).
Outside the US, psychiatric register data may be based on a country population such as in the Nordic countries or Taiwan, or a geographical area such as the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) case register, or a provider (Munk-Jorgensen et al. 2014; Allebeck 2009; Stewart et al. 2009). These registries provide a longitudinal record of all psychiatric contacts, and have high coverage and low dropout rates in countries with a national health service. However, there are limitations to the validity and quality of data in psychiatric registries, including over-representation of severe cases or inpatient data, sparse clinical detail, exclusion of variables not available from all institutions reporting to the register, and insufficient linking to other registries such as cause of death (Munk-Jørgensen et al. 2014). There are also questions about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses in the register data (Byrne et al. 2005; Øiesvold et al. 2013), including bipolar disorder (Øiesvold et al. 2012). Psychiatric case registries do not include patients without a psychiatric diagnosis for comparison (Munk-Jørgensen et al. 2014). Some other types of registries that can be linked to psychiatric registries include those for general health, prescription drugs, vital statistics, school registries, social insurance registries, and biobanks (Allebeck 2009), each of which has strengths and weaknesses.
Other sources of data include research databases and surveys, such as the US National Comorbidity Survey (Kessler et al. 1994) or the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) (Grant et al. 2004), which may have a national scope but contain a subset of clinical information.
Even very large databases containing millions of individuals may not be representative of the general population (Riley 2009). For example, the US claims/administrative data from a Medicaid population will include more younger women and children, data from an employer-offered HMO may include more younger and healthier people, and data from Veterans Affairs (VA) will include mainly males and be older (Overhage and Overhage 2013; Medicaid 2015). In a US multistate EMR database with 84 million patients, psychiatric and behavioral diagnoses were less frequent as compared to the US National Inpatient Sample, an established population estimate based on claims (HCUP 2015; DeShazo and Hoffman 2015). Population-based registries from small homogenous countries may not be representative of the population in larger diverse countries. Due to the heterogeneity among very large databases, the data source selected may challenge the results of observational studies, including even finding contradictory statistical significance (Madigan et al. 2013; Goldstein and Winkelmayer 2015; Crump et al. 2013a). However, with a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of a database, some findings from observational analyses can now be verified in many national and regional settings. For example, in a systematic review of 25 international population or community-based studies using different diagnostic criteria, the prevalence of bipolar disorder type I and type II was consistently low (Clemente et al. 2015).
The addition of complementary data sources may improve the accuracy and usefulness of data from any one source. Even when using validated algorithms, it is difficult to determine an episodic diagnosis such as depression when analyzing US claims data, and combining another data source such as EMR may improve accuracy (Townsend et al. 2012; Fiest et al. 2014). However, in the US, linking of data from unrelated sources that were de-identified to meet privacy regulations is challenging (West et al. 2014, Li and Shen 2013). In contrast, many European countries have a unique person identifier that is present on all medical data (Allebeck 2009). The use of complementary linked databases may also expand the types of research questions that may be addressed. Examples of useful linkages include register population data linked with biobank data in a study that found no association between markers of prenatal infection and the risk of bipolar disorder (Mortensen et al. 2011), and in a study that found elevated C-reactive protein was associated with an increased risk of late-onset bipolar disorder (Wium-Andersen et al. 2015).
Uses for data from providers and payers
The analysis of very large databases has provided fundamental information about bipolar disorder including the incidence, prevalence, decreased life expectancy (Munk-Jørgensen et al. 2014; Allebeck 2009; Laursen et al. 2007; Chang et al. 2011; Kessing et al. 2015c; Kessing et al. 2015d), and trends in prescribing medication (Baldessarini et al. 2007; Hayes et al. 2011; Bjorklund et al. 2015). Results from the analysis of large data sources are continuously being incorporated into patient care and research, and some key areas are discussed below.
Health policy decisions
Health policy decisions focus on outcome and cost. Big data is fundamental to the increasing importance of clinical guidelines, defining and measuring metrics that reflect the quality of care delivered, and meeting performance standards based on quality metrics. For the treatment of bipolar disorder, big data studies are helping to characterize problems and evaluate the results of policy changes. Of great concern are repeated findings of excess mortality in patients with bipolar disorder due primarily to physical illness, and of continuing disparities in the treatment of physical illness as compared with the general population (Roshanaei-Moghaddam and Katon 2009; McGinty et al. 2015). Some examples of suboptimal care for medical illness for people with bipolar disorder found using big data are shown in Table 1. In addition to health services and physical illness, socioeconomic factors and patient behaviors contribute to excess morbidity and mortality in bipolar disorder (Druss et al. 2011). The linking of psychiatric data with other databases, such as government financial databases, will help to clarify the complex, cumulative impacts of diverse socioeconomic factors, as shown in Table 2. Examples of studies directly related to health policy and bipolar disorder using big data are given in Table 3.
Evaluation of rare events
Big data allows the study of rare events and outcomes that may require data from multiple sources to provide an adequate sample size for detection. Randomized controlled trials are not powered to detect rare events or long-term effects, and case control and retrospective cohort study designs of observational databases collected from clinical practice are often used (Chan et al. 2015; Rodriguez et al. 2001). For example, there have been several recent large or population-based studies of renal related events in patients who were treated with lithium, as shown in Table 4. Big databases are being used for pharmacovigilance of many drugs prescribed for bipolar disorder, such as studies of the potential for antipsychotics to increase risk of a seizure (Bloechliger et al. 2015), pulmonary embolism (Tournier 2015; Conti et al. 2015), and a Torsades de pointes ventricular arrhythmia (Poluzzi et al. 2013).
Exploration and hypothesis generation from large databases
The exploration of big data offers unique opportunities to find correlations that may trigger the investigation of new areas and generation of new hypotheses (Varian 2014; Khoury and Ioannidis 2014). These new correlations may or may not have meaning, do not measure causality, and may be further investigated by traditional or data-intensive experimental methods as appropriate. There are many computational and statistical challenges associated with the analysis of big data related to the number of patients, number of variables per patient, and the quality and technical complexity of the databases (Monteith et al. 2015; Fan et al. 2014; Grimes and Schulz 2002). Both the variables included and the analytic techniques used may lead to variation in the associations detected in big data studies (Abrams et al. 2008; Fan et al. 2014; Patel et al. 2015a).
Additional correlations detected include an association between epilepsy and bipolar disorder (Wotton and Goldacre 2014; Clarke et al. 2012), an increased risk of pneumonia in patients with bipolar disorder taking antipsychotics (Yang et al. 2013), an increased risk of bipolar disorder in those with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (Selten et al. 2015), and finding that the premature risk of cardiovascular disease in bipolar disorder is not explained by traditional risk factors including cigarette smoking, obesity, or hypertension (Goldstein et al. 2015). In a study using medical records from 110 million patients, new associations were found between Mendelian diseases and complex psychiatric diseases, including bipolar disorder (Blair et al. 2013).
Defining phenotypes
There is considerable interest in using EMR to automate the process of defining phenotypic cohorts for genetic studies of bipolar disorder, since sample sizes of tens of thousands are needed (Pathak et al. 2013; Potash 2015). In addition to the study of phenotype-genotype relationships and gene-disease associations, phenotypic cohorts will enable a wide range of clinical research. Despite many challenges, semi-automated methods are now being used to define phenotypes from EMR for psychiatric disorders, including bipolar disorder (Lyalina et al. 2013; Castro et al. 2015a). The methodology used to automate phenotype detection in EMR is evolving, and includes data mining, natural language processing, statistical techniques, and human expertise (Hripcsak and Albers 2013; Pathak et al. 2013). More standardization is expected in the future.
Predictive models
Predictive models are widely used in medicine, such as cardiovascular risk prediction, to estimate the presence of a diagnosis or event, or if the diagnosis or event will occur in a specific time period (Moons et al. 2012). The results of validated predictive models may assist the physician and patient with decision making to mitigate risks, and help to limit spending on unnecessary procedures. Before adoption for clinical use, predictive models require considerable testing and re-adjustment, including internal validation, external validation with other populations, followed by determination if the validated model provides actionable information to the clinician and patient (Moons et al. 2012). Most predictive models are based on a small number of variables collected in cohort studies such as the Framingham Heart Study (D’Agostino et al. 2008). In general, models used in medicine today have limited predictive power, and access to the large number of variables and patients in EMR and other databases may improve their accuracy in the future (Berger and Doban 2014; de Lissovoy 2013). With the frequent use of heuristics in medical decision making, complex predictive models also need practical input requirements for routine use in clinical situations (Marewski and Gigerenzer 2012).
Many technical issues impede the development of predictive models from EMR data, including quality, multidimensional complexity, bias, comorbidities, and confounding medical interventions (Paxton et al. 2013; Wu et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2014). The temporal nature of EMR data also poses a significant challenge for prediction (Singh et al. 2015; Binder and Blettner 2015). In contrast to a controlled longitudinal study, data entries into an EMR only occur when a patient initiates or a physician recommends and documents care. There are great differences in the time between visits for one patient, and across all patients, in the number of visits and length of time each patient is tracked. New variables detected in EMR data may be associated with but not predictive of disease (Ware 2006). A variety of machine learning, data mining, classification algorithms, and statistical approaches are currently being researched for the future (Singh et al. 2015; Wu et al. 2010, Wang et al. 2014).
While the primary benefits of prediction will be in the future, in some recently developed models, bipolar disorder is a risk factor for readmission to a psychiatric hospital within 30 days of discharge (Vigod et al. 2015), readmission to a safety-net hospital within a year (Hamilton et al. 2015), and suicide by veterans (McCarthy et al. 2015). The addition of variables relating to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia improved the accuracy of a predictive model of cardiovascular risk for those with these diagnoses (Osborn et al. 2015).
Data sources from patients and non-providers
Digital technologies that are widely accepted by the general public are being integrated into the routine care of bipolar disorder to increase patient involvement and expand clinician oversight between visits. Many technologies are suitable platforms for active or passive patient monitoring including computers, smartphones, and even clothing with embedded sensors. Today, the patient-created data are not generally integrated into the EMR.
Data actively created by patients outside of medical settings
Many applications are available today to monitor bipolar disorder away from medical settings that require active patient participation. These include validated products for mood charting such as the ChronoRecord on a computer (Bauer et al. 2004; Bauer et al. 2008), the Life-Chart on a smartphone and web site (Scharer et al. 2015), weekly text messaging of responses to Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology and Altman self-rating manic scale (Bopp et al. 2010), and weekly or monthly use of an interactive voice response (IVR) system to complete the PHQ-9 (Piette et al. 2013). In all cases, the patients respond to questions or prompts directly related to their illness. In addition to clinical use, data collected from these systems is often aggregated for research (Bauer et al. 2013a, 2013b; Moore et al. 2014). A large number of parameters may be accumulated for each patient, such as from daily medications taken (Bauer et al. 2013a), but data are not routinely integrated into the EMR. Although challenges remain regarding the interpretation of self-reported data, much of the understanding about the long-term course of bipolar disorder is due to the daily recording efforts of patients worldwide, starting with paper-based instruments (Bauer et al. 1991; Kupka et al. 2007).
Data passively created by patients outside of medical settings
With passive monitoring, patients do not directly provide information about their illness, and much of the data collected are non-medical. For example, data from Internet and smartphone activities, and from sensors in smartphones and wearable technology, are routinely being used to monitor mental state and behavior for non-medical purposes such as behavioral advertising (Glenn and Monteith 2014b; Geller 2014; FTC 2009). There are a variety of passive monitoring projects for bipolar disorder, mostly in the pilot phase, with examples shown in Table 5. The implementation of routine passive monitoring for large numbers of patients faces many hurdles, including patient acceptance, physician usability, and processing large volumes of data from sensors (Redmond et al. 2014; Muench 2014). Many passive monitoring projects involve smartphones. Both the differing physical characteristics of the standard devices available to consumers such as sensor accuracy and memory size, and methods selected for analysis may impact the findings (Banaee et al. 2013; Redmond et al. 2014). The sales of smartphones are flat in developed countries with saturation reached, and usage patterns vary among countries (Thomas 2014, Waters 2015). In the US in 2015, 64 % of adults in the US use a smartphone with 7 % relying primarily on it for Internet access (Smith 2015).
Commercial processing of data
Provider-created data are traditionally processed by the provider or their contractors. In contrast, commercial firms unrelated to medicine may be involved in both active and passive patient monitoring. Many behavioral related apps are available for Apple and Android smartphones, and commercial firms may receive, store, and analyze data using proprietary and unvalidated algorithms. Any potential combination of data processed by commercial firms with EMR data needs to be carefully evaluated as the firms may not be covered by national privacy regulations (Glenn and Monteith 2014b). An analysis of 79 mobile health apps certified as trustworthy by the UK NHS found a multitude of privacy and security flaws (Huckvale et al. 2015).
Changing world of technology
Passive monitoring should be considered in the context of the ongoing changes in digital technology, especially in relation to mobile devices for consumers. First, the devices used to access the Internet will change the online activities of the public. For example, the use of a search engine is much lower from a smartphone than from a computer (Arthur 2015; MacMillan 2015). Second, the widespread use of mobile technology has triggered a push toward developing artificial intelligence (AI) interfaces for devices, as evidenced by the near simultaneous announcements of open source AI software tools from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Facebook (Simonite 2015). The vision of Larry Page of Google is for Google to tell you what you want before you ask the question (Varian 2014, Page 2013). In an international survey of 6600 smartphone users by Ericsson, half of all smartphone users expect AI interfaces to replace the smartphone screen within 5 years, and one-third want AI to keep them company (Boulden 2015). Messaging chatbots (computer-generated responses based on AI) are starting to replace search engines on mobile devices (Elgan 2015). In the future, consumer mobile devices will routinely incorporate voice and gesture input, and as hardware features change, the AI algorithms will also evolve. In the background, there is an industry-wide effort to develop AI algorithms based on massive databases to predict behavior and emotions for uses such as for targeted marketing.
Other provider data sources
Massive amounts of data will be coming from genomics, proteomics, and image processing, and the ongoing efforts of large-scale consortia will help to elucidate the neuropathology of bipolar disorder and define new treatment targets. The ENIGMA Consortium detected subcortical brain volumetric changes using brain structural MRI scans from 1710 patients with bipolar disorder and 2594 controls (Thompson et al. 2014, Hibar et al. 2016). The ConLiGen Consortium identified genetic variants associated with lithium response in a GWAS study of 2563 patients with bipolar disorder (Hou et al. 2016). The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) found a new susceptibility locus in a GWAS study of 7481 individuals with bipolar disorder and 9250 controls (Sklar et al. 2011). Recent technology allows large-scale comparison of proteome profiles (Gold et al. 2010; SomaLogic 2016), and findings may improve predictive models for bipolar disorder. These data are not expected to be incorporated into the EMR or impact the routine care of bipolar disorder in the near future but suggest future directions for data integration.
General considerations
There are a wide range of anticipated and unanticipated complications related to the use of big data in the study of bipolar disorder some of which are mentioned briefly below.
Privacy and confidentiality
The privacy and confidentiality of big data are a major concern. Many technical issues affect the privacy and confidentiality of big data related to hardware and software implementations, mobile devices and wireless networks, shared resources, and shared control over monitoring systems (Ko et al. 2010). Breaches of provider medical data occur frequently with about 90 % of health care providers reporting at least one data breach over the last 2 years in an international study in 2015 (Experian 2015). The use of commercial apps for monitoring also complicates privacy issues. Patients may incorrectly assume that national medical privacy regulations apply to data collected and processed by non-providers (Glenn and Monteith 2014b). Patient posting of private medical data online, such as in support groups, is another complication, and online data cannot really be deleted due to the distributed and redundant storage of Internet data (President’s Council 2014). Preserving privacy in big data research is particularly difficult, since this often includes multiple international collaborators, and data are copied and shared around the world. The legal framework for medical privacy varies among countries (Dove and Phillips 2015).
Ethical considerations
There is disagreement about the importance of informed consent for big data research (Rothstein 2015), with some wanting to ease regulations (Larson 2013). The consent process is of particular importance for bipolar disorder due to the highly sensitive information in the EMR (Clemens 2012), and since some patients have cognitive impairment (Daglas et al. 2015).
De-identification is frequently used to protect individual privacy. De-identified data are not covered by US federal privacy laws and are sold commercially. Yet the general public cares about using de-identified data without consent (McGraw 2013), and about the specific purpose for secondary use (Grande et al. 2013). The released data may be vulnerable to re-identification since current de-identification methods are inadequate for high-dimensional data (Narayanan et al. 2016). There is a growing confluence of the interests of academic and commercial organizations in big data projects, leading to questions about ownership of the data and any benefits created, and about disposition of data if a firm goes out of business or is purchased.
In countries without a national health service, predictive models of costs may increase coverage disparities of vulnerable groups (Wharam and Weiner 2012). Predictive models being developed by commercial, non-medical companies can create ethical conflicts (Glenn and Monteith 2014a). For example, privacy and non-discrimination laws in the US that impact decisions about credit, employment, or housing do not prohibit discrimination against the predisposition of disabilities (Horvitz and Mulligan 2015).
Unreasonable expectations for predictive models
The expectations of the general public regarding predictive models may be inappropriate. People are familiar with personalized recommendations from Netflix or Amazon, search results from Google, and advertising on Apple and Android smartphones. These predictive models are based solely on the available data, are unconnected to causal inference and underlying mechanisms, and focus on predicting the present rather than the future (Hand 2013; Curtis 2014). The validity of predictive models in business is judged by increased overall sales and profits, not by accuracy of the prediction for individual customers (McAfee et al. 2012).
Physicians may also have unrealistic expectations for models that predict behavior based on big data. Big data is non-sampled, and from sources with a purpose other than statistical inference (Horrigan 2013). Data that are created and collected by humans reflect physical place and culture, and contain hidden biases (Pope et al. 2014, Crawford 2013). More data does not necessarily improve predictions over those made using smaller datasets as data must be relevant to the question at hand (Monteith et al. 2015; Guszcza and Richardson 2014). Big data is also without context (Boyd and Crawford 2012; Bilton 2013). Furthermore, malware or denial of service attacks occur frequently, change overall Internet behavior patterns, and further complicate interpretation of human behavior (NRC 2013). Predictive models can be wrong as shown repeatedly with Google Flu (Lazer et al. 2014a, b). Predictive models in medical and related settings can be inconsistent and biased (Singh et al. 2014), have little clinical impact (Hochster and Niedzwiecki 2016), and may be most appropriate for health policy and risk stratification rather than individual risk prediction (Harris et al. 2015; Wray et al. 2013; Wharam and Weiner 2012).
Analytical challenges
In the future, data from all provider and patient sources will be integrated, creating massive datasets for analysis. Massive datasets have issues of scale, heterogeneity, multidimensional complexity, error handling, privacy, provenance, and many types of biases (NRC 2013; Monteith et al. 2015). If analysis of big data is based on the classical methods, underlying assumptions are likely to be violated. Researchers with different backgrounds tend to have different perspectives on data analysis, using either statistical (model-based focus on variability) or algorithmic (data mining for patterns and rules) (NRC 2013; Mahoney et al. 2008) techniques. New algorithms for big data are combining the complementary strengths of both approaches.
Human judgment is an absolutely critical component of big data analysis (Wyss and Stürmer 2014; NRC 2013). To optimize the studies of big data for bipolar disorder, participation of those with expertise in psychiatry is required throughout the analytical process, such as for parameter selection and exclusion, interpretation of results, and hypothesis generation. For example, just as Captcha demonstrates the difference between human and machine image resolution (Datta et al. 2009), psychiatrist input is needed during the development of algorithms to interpret the use of language by those with bipolar disorder.
Conclusions
Big data projects based on the data collected by providers in EMR, claims, registries, and active patient monitoring are providing valuable information on many aspects of bipolar disorder for research and clinical care. In the near future, data from passive patient monitoring will be available and integrated with the EMR, and diverse data sources from outside of medicine such as government financial data will be linked for research. This is only the beginning. Further on, data from genetics, other omics, and imaging will also be integrated with the EMR, and lead to new levels of understanding and improvement in routine care. Many significant challenges remain for big data projects, and the active collaboration of psychiatrists is required throughout the analytical process. Big data will provide the basis for transforming the understanding and management of bipolar disorder.
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Monteith, S., Glenn, T., Geddes, J. et al. Big data for bipolar disorder. Int J Bipolar Disord 4, 10 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-016-0051-7
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