The study, published online Monday in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, underscores the trade-offs in the diagnostic process: More medical tests generally improve detection, but they can also increase costs, harm patients, and produce false positives.

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In San Francisco a couple of weeks back the progressive medics of the Sage Commons gathered to talk about how open innovation could, should and will play an ever bigger role in disease detection and cure, with patients more active partners in this process.

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Access the raw data we have published at setiQuest and show us how to process it in new ways, find signals that our current signal detection algorithms are missing.

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The company claims that its learning algorithms can be used to process data for a wide variety of applications, from predicting the effectiveness of sales promotions to fraud detection to molecular modeling to astronomy.

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