Search Tag: data sharing
2025 29 Sep
Centralisation of pancreatic surgery has improved postoperative outcomes in several countries, yet it has also intensified the fragmentation that patients and clinicians experience when care spans expert and non-expert centres. Multiple handovers, repeated diagnostics and delays to diagnosis and treatment are recurrent consequences, compounded...Read more
2025 09 Sep
Digital health tools now generate sensitive information well beyond clinical settings, from consumer apps and wearables that track activity, sleep, blood pressure and oxygen levels to platforms that interpret intimate physiological signals. Yet many devices are not subject to mandatory quality control, and users are often not meaningfully informed...Read more
2025 09 Sep
Digital health tools now generate sensitive information well beyond clinical settings, from consumer apps and wearables that track activity, sleep, blood pressure and oxygen levels to platforms that interpret intimate physiological signals. Yet many devices are not subject to mandatory quality control, and users are often not meaningfully informed...Read more
2025 22 Aug
Fragmentation continues to limit the full potential of health data across systems. Progress depends on establishing interoperability, aligning regulations and investing in sustainable digital infrastructure. Strategic actions include enforcing open standards, financing ongoing digital operations, developing workforce skills and empowering patients...Read more
2025 29 Jan
Health inequities remain a significant challenge across diverse demographic groups, limiting access to equitable care. Addressing these disparities requires the ability to identify their root causes through robust data collection and analysis. Much like diagnosing and treating an ailment, tackling health inequities involves a systematic approach...Read more
2023 13 Oct
Ongoing research and challenges regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to leverage data and identify complex interactions to address antimicrobial resistance in the ICU. The possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically, machine learning (ML), are being researched across almost all domains...Read more
2023 23 Jun
The Catalan Department of Health has set up a project ‘Health data to share – Blue Button’ - a new system that allows citizens to get access to their own medical history. This is enabled through a health app known as ‘Catalonia on La Meva Salut (MyHealth)’. The Catalan public health system is the first in the European Union to create a tool that...Read more
2021 29 Dec
A recent report, published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology , describes the top concerns and best practices for preparing and sharing the health data needed to develop artificial intelligence tools. In 2019, the American College of Radiology organised a Data Sharing Workgroup to develop philosophies around best practices in sharing health...Read more