"A national system that collects pooled data about near misses and errors, which are thankfully rare, may help us identify common trends and implement safety interventions to improve care," Harris said.
Northern Ballet, for example, which performs to an audience of over 120,000 across the world, is pooling data about its operations with other dance organisations to create visualisations.
23andMe says that it is also able to share anonymous and pooled data about their self-reported health traits without asking.
The estimate of the standard deviation of frailty from the pooled data is about 1.5.
This example also shows that decisions about whether to pool data or not have to be made on a by trait basis and should incorporate prior knowledge about genetic architecture, if available.
With an ever-growing pool of data about our lifestyles captured through our smartphones, social media accounts, and even online shopping preferences, coupled with rapid advances in computing power and recommendation systems, it seems like technology is at the cusp of transforming how we think, perceive, and quantify our health.
As Ehrlichman tells me, Porch's inspiration feature is different from that of its competitors because the company can draw on its deep pool of data about home improvement projects.
In healthcare, the exponentially larger pool of data about a health condition or population could prove tremendously powerful.
It doesn't really matter what Edwin does with the money, so long as his year of basic income adds to the pool of data about what a basic income could look like for individuals.
Researchers at the study sites only need to pool aggregated data about each risk set rather than personal data about each person.
