{
  "id": 26881,
  "title": "How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/29/how-a-medical-database-developed-at-mit-evolved-into-a-global",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-07-29T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT News AI",
    "slug": "mit-news-ai",
    "url": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-an-mit-database-evolved-into-global-standard-data-sharing-0729"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}