Challenges and best practices for digital unstructured data enrichment in health research: A systematic narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Digital data play an increasingly important role in advancing health research and care. However, most digital data in healthcare are in an unstructured and often not readily accessible format for research. Unstructured data are often found in a format that lacks standardization and needs significant preprocessing and feature extraction efforts. This poses challenges when combining such data with other data sources to enhance the existing knowledge base, which we refer to as digital unstructured data enrichment. Overcoming these methodological challenges requires significant resources and may limit the ability to fully leverage their potential for advancing health research and, ultimately, prevention, and patient care delivery. While prevalent challenges associated with unstructured data us

SUBMITTER: Sedlakova J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10566734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature