Loyalty card data could help to identify ovarian cancer symptoms sooner
Loyalty card data on over-the-counter medicine purchases could help spot ovarian cancer cases earlier, an Imperial College London-led study suggests.…
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The ethics of collecting data
How social media sites and algorithms effect our wellbeing. https://www.ted.com/talks/marie_wallace_the_ethics_of_collecting_data?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Monitoring food security data through mobile technology
In rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa’s second largest country with vast fertile lands and thousands…
Data, data everywhere, but are doctors ready?
As I write in a patient’s notes in clinic, with the end of my pen in my mouth, I fall…
Patient outcomes
Outcomes data is information about the results of surgery that can be published and used by surgeons, patients and hospitals…
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…