The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said June 30 it has the world’s largest integrated health database in the world.
The database contains data from a program called All of Us, described as “a historic effort to collect and study data from one million or more people living in the United States.”
The NIH said Wednesday that it has obtained data from more than 747,000 participants in the years since Congress created the program in a 2016 law, up more than 114,000 since the last update. The agency makes the data available to researchers.
The new update also includes more than 535,000 whole genome sequences, linked to nearly 482,000 electronic health records, as well as 600,000 physical measurements and 747,000 survey responses….