Search Tag: data sharing
2024 21 May
Effective data sharing among collaborating organisations is highly desirable but often challenging due to varying database management systems (DBMSs), different data schemas, and protection policies. Trust in the data-sharing system is paramount, particularly when allowing external queries into internal databases. Current industry solutions are...Read more
2020 16 May
This month the World Health Organization (WHO) will be launching a platform for open, collaborative sharing of knowledge, data and intellectual property on existing and new health tools to combat COVID-19. You may also like : Planning Your Surge Capacity: Useful Tools According to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...Read more
2019 07 Jun
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) announced today that the global medical device developer and manufacturer Mindray has become the 90th company to sign the PSMF’s Open Data Pledge, demonstrating its commitment to improving patient safety through data sharing. “We are excited to have Mindray join the Patient Safety Movement,” said...Read more
2019 22 May
The FAIR4Health project supports wider publicly-funded health data use How FAIR4Health aims to enable safe and ethical sharing of all data and metadata derived from publicly-funded research. The FAIR principles are intended to ensure that people and machines can reuse data. These principles are designed to be applied to data and metadata...Read more
2019 10 Apr
Artificial intelligence ( AI ) software that analyses medical images is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, the promise of AI as a tool for promoting and enhancing personalised medicine can only be fulfilled with access to large quantities of medical data from patients. This data could be used for purposes such as predicting disease, diagnosis,...Read more
2018 29 Aug
Data sharing is still not very common in the field of clinical research compared to other fields such as genetics, astronomy or physics. However, data sharing could be useful keeping in mind the patient-centred nature of medical research as well as the expectation that clinical data could provide benefit to all stakeholders. The process of...Read more
2016 25 Jan
Electronic health information exchange (HIE) is supposed to make coordination between care teams easier, resulting in a better patient experience. It's therefore important for hospitals to ensure that patients' records are correct — ie, no erroneous entries. However, errors in typing in names and numbers are rather common, given that many different...Read more
2015 19 Oct
Most patients in the UK (79 percent) would worry about the security of their health record if this was part of a national electronic health record (EHR) system, according to a new study published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . The finding highlights the need for intensive public education and engagement initiatives to...Read more
2015 06 Oct
Americans prefer doctors who are digitally savvy and demand a connected healthcare experience, a new Surescripts survey finds. Sixty-eight percent of the more than 1,000 respondents to the nationwide survey say that practices that have adopted technology to replace outdated methods of administrative tasks, such as scheduling appointments online, provide...Read more
2015 22 Sep
While people often take for granted the convenience of being able to withdraw money from an ATM hundreds of miles from home or call someone in another cellphone network, that same sort of universal operability has yet to be achieved for the electronic exchange of patient information, according to an article in JAMA 's Medical News & Perspectives section....Read more
2015 13 Apr
The proper collection, management and utilisation of health information play a critical role in modern healthcare. Electronic health records (EHR) serve as the main carrier of medical information, and emerging information technologies — health sensing, big data analysis and cloud computing — provide great potential for facilitating research and improving...Read more
2015 15 Feb
Biobanks are made all the more valuable when the biological samples they hold can be linked to health information collected in research, electronic health records (EHR), or public health practice. Such data linkages, however, have raised concerns about patient privacy and data security. Incidentally, public trust in systems that share health information...Read more