The Uneven Future of Evidence-Based Medicine

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, FACMI, co-director of CTSI's Informatics and Research Innovation (IRI) program, presents the 3rd Cochrane Lecture at the Cochrane Colloquium in Vienna, Austria.

The Uneven Future of Evidence-Based Medicine

“An Apple ResearchKit study enrolled 22,000 people in five days. A study claims that Twitter can be used to identify depressed patients. A computer program crunches genomic data, the published literature, and electronic health record data to guide cancer treatment. The pace, the data sources, and the methods for generating medical evidence are changing radically. What will — what should — evidence-based medicine look like in a faster, personalized, data-dense tomorrow?”