TECHNOLOGY. 'BIG DATA' IS ALREADY HERE.

DATABASE management; INFORMATION retrieval; MEDICAL research; MENTAL health services; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; DATA analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors

The article examines the effects on behavioral health care services of the growing importance of big data in health care. Topics discussed include the benefits of big data for the improvement of health care, the ways in which the Knowledge Network partnership, which focuses on big data research, can help behavioral health service providers and the steps that behavioral health care providers should take to adopt a big data research policy.