title: A "datathon" model to support cross-disciplinary collaboration.
abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing focus on the unreliability of published biomedical and clinical research. To introduce effective new scientific contributors to the culture of health care, we propose a "datathon" or "hackathon" model in which participants with disparate, but potentially synergistic and complementary, knowledge and skills effectively combine to address questions faced by clinicians. The continuous peer review intrinsically provided by follow-up datathons, which take up prior uncompleted projects, might produce more reliable research, either by providing a different perspective on the study design and methodology or by replication of prior analyses.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Jerôme
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authors.lastname: Aboab
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Leo Anthony
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Celi
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Peter
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authors.lastname: Charlton
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Mengling
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authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Mohammad
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authors.lastname: Ghassemi
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. dominic.marshall12@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Dominic C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Louis
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authors.lastname: Mayaud
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Tristan
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authors.lastname: Naumann
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Ned
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authors.lastname: McCague
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth E
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authors.lastname: Paik
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Tom J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Pollard
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Matthieu
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authors.lastname: Resche-Rigon
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Justin D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Salciccioli
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. Center for Wireless Health, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019992:Databases as Topic; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013223:Statistics as Topic