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Health Data Science Lab
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The lab explores ways to use data generated in everyday medical care for research.

AboutAbout the lab
Turning medical data into research power.
The Health Data Science Lab studies methods for using real-world data in research.
Its work includes research that considers data acquisition from an informatics perspective, as well as research on data management, study design, and analysis methods.
Prof. Ito serves as director of the Hokkaido University Hospital Data Science Center.
The center works to ensure the reliability of data from clinical research and clinical trials, and to make use of data from the hospital information system.
Key terms
- Real-world data
- Medical data collected in routine clinical practice and the like, rather than for a clinical trial
- Study design
- How a study is structured: who is studied, what data are collected, and what is compared with what
- Clinical trial for approval (chiken)
- A clinical trial that tests the efficacy and safety of a new drug or medical device in people in order to obtain national approval
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies methods for using real-world data, collected in everyday medical care, in research. Its work covers informatics research on data acquisition, research on data management, and research on study design and analysis methods.
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- ProfessorYoichi Ito
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images.
- Top image: “Front of server racks at NERSC” Derrick Coetzee from Berkeley, CA, USA / CC0 (cropped)
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