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Big Data and innovative data science methods provide tools to integrate multiple data dimensions for description of best clinical, predictive, and preventive practices, for reducing racial disparities in child health outcomes, for inclusion of patient- and family-input in medical assessments, and for defining individual disease risk, mechanisms, and therapies. See article by Vesoulis et al. on page 342.