title: Big data are coming to psychiatry: a general introduction.
abstract: Big data are coming to the study of bipolar disorder and all of psychiatry. Data are coming from providers and payers (including EMR, imaging, insurance claims and pharmacy data), from omics (genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data), and from patients and non-providers (data from smart phone and Internet activities, sensors and monitoring tools). Analysis of the big data will provide unprecedented opportunities for exploration, descriptive observation, hypothesis generation, and prediction, and the results of big data studies will be incorporated into clinical practice. Technical challenges remain in the quality, analysis and management of big data. This paper discusses some of the fundamental opportunities and challenges of big data for psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Traverse City Campus, 1400 Medical Campus Drive, Traverse City, MI, 49684, USA. monteit2@msu.edu.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monteith
authors.affiliation: ChronoRecord Association, Inc., Fullerton, CA, 92834, USA. tglenn@chronorecord.org.
authors.forename: Tasha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Glenn
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK. john.geddes@psych.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Geddes
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany. michael.bauer@uniklinikum-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bauer