The reproducibility crisis in the age of digital medicine

• Published in: NPJ digital medicine Vol. 2; no. 1; p. 2
• Main Authors: Stupple, Aaron, Singerman, David, Celi, Leo Anthony
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.01.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/2778; 692/308/409; Algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Biomedicine; Biotechnology; Digital technology; Health informatics; Medical databases; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Perspective; Reproducibility; Outcomes research; Preclinical research

As databases of medical information are growing, the cost of analyzing data is falling, and computer scientists, engineers, and investment are flooding into the field, digital medicine is subject to increasingly hyperbolic claims. Every week brings news of advances: superior algorithms that can pred...