Pittsburgh University, its medical centre, and Carnegie Mellon partner on Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance to use data to solve health challenges to generate spin-outs.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is to partner Pittsburgh University and University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC) to form a new alliance which aims to use big data to detect potential outbreaks and create new intellectual property to generate spin-outs.

The collaborative effort, Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA), is looking to leverage data taken from caring for individuals and utilise it to generate insights into diseases and other conditions. PHDA will be looking to draw on electronic health records, diagnostic imaging,…