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Tag: data

You are what you eat

A major weakness in all nutrition and diet studies is that we have no true measure of what people eat. We rely solely on people...
You are what you eat

Data for safer cosmetic surgery

In theory, the PIP scandal was just about one factory in France producing substandard breast implants. In practice, it proved to be a watershed moment...
Data for safer cosmetic surgery

Saying goodbye to paper records

The challenge of making data and personal medical information available to individual patients and clinicians in a secure timely way is one that has been...
Saying goodbye to paper records

Big Data and asthma

Millions of people suffer from asthma which is now recognised as a syndrome rather than a single disease.  However, we lack the high-quality data sets to understand...
Big Data and asthma

Patient outcomes

Outcomes data is information about the results of surgery that can be published and used by surgeons, patients and hospitals to ultimately improve safety and...
Patient outcomes

Can a rural hand pump tell you it’s not well?

Predictive health monitoring is widely used in engineering applications to detect damage to infrastructure as early as possible. Forecasting failure rather than merely detecting failure...
Can a rural hand pump tell you it’s not well?