Heart Association Creates Cloud-Based Data Bank For Cardiovascular Research

The American Heart Association has launched a cloud-based, secure data discovery platform for use by researchers, physicians, computational biologists, and computer engineers in researching cardiovascular disease. The global resource, developed with the help of Amazon Web Services, contains cardiovascular and stroke data that can be used to accelerate care of heart patients. The AHA is asking dataset owners and stewards in the field to share their data on heart failure, stroke, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation and other cardiovascular diseases. This would include aata from clinical trials, long-running epidemiologic studies, registries and real-time health data acquired through wearable devices and technology. [ Image credit: © American Heart Association ]