Researchers are digging deep -- using wearables, electronic hospital records, open-source data collections, and whole-genome sequencing -- to extract precise information on patients.

However, research is only as good as the data that supports it. That's why getting both qualitative and quantitative research right from the get-go can go a long way.

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...