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Dealing with Data: How to Build a Statistical Surveillance Dashboard for COVID-19
2021 20 Jul
When a major national or global health crisis or pandemic such as the current COVID-19 breaks out, it is important that there is an effective monitoring system in place. The proposed statistical surveillance dashboard can provide authorities and other decision makers with insights and in-depth data analysis to help them make critical decisions.... Read more
New Platform for COVID-19 Research
2020 16 Jun
Scientists in the US can now benefit from a new centralised secure platform, which has been launched by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to store and study medical record data from people diagnosed with COVID-19. You might also like: New Global Platform to Pool COVID-19 Data The initiative is part of the National COVID... Read more
Personalised medicine and cardiovascular disease
2019 22 May
An overview of the application of personalised medicine in cardiology and the potential benefits it offers for improved cardiovascular care. The term “personalised medicine” was first introduced in the late 1990s. The Council of Advisors on Science and Technology of USA defined personalised medicine as “the tailoring of medical treatment... Read more
Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: What is versus what will be
2019 22 Feb
Artificial intelligence will alter healthcare as we know it, augmenting some jobs and outright replacing others. Though we can’t be sure when this will happen, what’s most important for now is understanding what AI is and what it isn’t. At medical conferences and in hospital cafeterias, few topics come up more frequently, or cause more confusion... Read more
5 business analytics tools to improve the running of a healthcare institution
2017 19 Sep
What data analysis tools can healthcare implement to streamline operations and improve efficiency? Data analysis is essential to run many organisations, and even has increased in importance over the last several years. With cheap computer power and storage options it has become possible to analyse vast amounts and types of data to... Read more
30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
2017 22 Jun
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Siemens & IBM Team on Next Generation of Cloud-Based Building Energy Management Solutions
2016 23 Feb
Cloud-based building management platform leverages enterprise asset management and data analytics technologies to help meet sustainability goals Collaboration with IBM Watson Internet of Things Business Unit showcased at IBM InterConnect 2016 will transform real estate performance The Siemens Building Technologies Division and IBM announced cloud-based... Read more
Cancer Research Powered by Place: How Location and Health go Hand-in-Hand
2016 04 Jan
Place matters. Everything we do happens somewhere and that place can offer great insights. A place based approach is powerful. geography as a science provides both content and context for our work and facilitates our understanding of the world. By linking all sorts of data through their common geography, we can analyse, visualise, and detect patterns... Read more
Scarce Data on Advantage of ICU Bedside Diagnosis
2015 18 Aug
According to a review published online on 4 August in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society , little or scarce data on the advantage of bedside physical examinations in the ICU (intensive care unit) are available. Having examined the utility of bedside diagnosis in modern ICU practice, the authors of this review, Dr. Thomas S. Metkus and... Read more
IBM Buys Merge Healthcare
2015 06 Aug
IBM has agreed to buy Merge Healthcare Inc. in a cash deal expected to give the medical imaging company an equity value of approximately $700 million. The deal is expected to close sometime this year, subject to regulatory approval. Merge Healthcare provides medical image handling and processing services to clinical research institutes, pharmaceutical... Read more