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Showing 1 to 20 of 201 for “"Health data"”.
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Digital Health-Data platforms : biometric data aggregation and their potential impact to centralize Digital Health-Data
Digital Health-Data is being collected at unprecedented rates today as biometric micro sensors continue to diffuse into our lives in the form of smart devices, wearables, and even clothing. From this data, we hope to learn more about preventative health so that we can spend less money on the …
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Modeling Diverse Treatment Policies from Observational Health Data
… human behavior, especially in domains like healthcare and driving. In these settings, skills are learned from expert human demonstrations, but such data are typically multimodal, violating the common single expert assumption. We study sequential clinical treatment decision making in the …
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Medical informatics : the generic interchange of comprehensive health data
… of generic transfer of comprehensive medical data.The work presented in this thesis had as its main premise the belief that generic transfer of comprehensive medical data will help towards the goal of better healthcare particularly in an environment of shared care. It studied the main methods …
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Protection and efficient management of big health data in cloud environment
Healthcare data has become a great concern in the academic world and in industry. The deployment of electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare-related services on cloud platforms will reduce the cost and complexity of handling and integrating medical records while improving efficiency and …
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SPINE: An infrastructure for secure access and sharing of health data
The sharing of medical data, especially in electronic form, is becoming increasingly commonplace. Throughout the years, we have found people sharing this data using a bevy of different channels including email, USB thumb drives, or registered postage. These methods of information flow are …
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Data Experiences : novel interfaces for data engagement using environmental health data
For the past twenty years, the data visualization movement has reworked the way we engage with information. It has brought fresh excitement to researchers and reached broad audiences. But what comes next for data? I seek to create example "Data Experiences" that will contribute to developing new …
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GEOGRAPHIC DATA MINING AND GEOVISUALIZATION FOR UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DATA
… large amount of real-world facts and geospatial data are collected and stored. Decision makers cannot consider all the available disparate raw facts and data. Problem-specific variables, including complex geographic identifiers have to be selected from this data and be validated. The problems …
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Towards secure and privacy preserving e-health data exchanges through consent based access control
How we administer healthcare continues to evolve alongside the advancement of information technology. As we become more connected, the Internet of Things and our want to share information in a timely manner encourage us to redefine and enhance how we exchange health information. A fully integrated, …
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Creating a Patient-Generated Health Data Visualization System for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Many patients collect health data at home, which supports their engagement in managing their health. The patient-generated health data (PGHD) can provide physicians with a clear view of a patient's condition between appointments, but limited appointment time makes summarized information necessary. …
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Learning more with less data using domain-guided machine learning: the case for health data analytics
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Mobile health data: investigating the data used by an mHealth app using different mobile app architectures
Mobile Health (mHealth) has come a long way in the last forty years and is still rapidly evolving and presenting many opportunities. The advancements in mobile technology and wireless mobile communication technology contributed to the rapid evolution and development of mHealth. Consequently, this …
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Geographical health data maps for Carle Foundation Hospital and the assessment of rural cancer rates in Illinois
… cannot be built. Instead, we analyzed the health data on geographical maps by visualizing the statistics of risk factors on county and ZIP Code levels on a map. Different types of environmental and socioeconomic factors of interest are overlaid on the map to show the statistics of Illinois. …
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Use for Health-Related Quality of Life, a Secondary Analysis of the INCLD Health Data
… These treatments are commonly used in overall health maintenance to promote health and for disease prevention. However, there is a lack of information on how TCM affects Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Objectives: The objectives of this study are to evaluate the association of TCM and …
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The Epidemiology and Management of Ischaemic Heart Disease in New Zealand: A Series of National Routine Health Data-Linkage Studies
This thesis comprises a series of eight data-linkage studies that examined the epidemiology and management of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in New Zealand over the last 12 years. Using individual-level linkage of routinely collected national data on almost the entire population, the first three …
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The ethical, legal, and social acceptability of health data linkage in the Australian context: an investigation of current practices, perceptions, and public attitudes.
Vast collections of electronic data are held by a variety of health organisations, including government and non-government agencies, hospitals and universities. Data linkage involves combining such data sets for secondary purposes such as population health research. Data linkage currently occurs in …
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Syphilis in Pregnancy: Exploring the prevalence and vertical transmission prevention cascade of syphilis using routinely collected electronic health data, Cape Town Metropolitan District, 2017–2022
… reviewed routinely collected electronic health data on a pregnant cohort and their infants from the Western Cape Provincial Health Data Centre. Clinical administration data, pharmacy and laboratory data were collated for patients identified as pregnant between January 2017 and December …
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Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data
… of the limitations of previous research and uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to test several hypotheses related to the probability of having been stopped or arrested by the police in youth, and the long-term impact of punitive interventions …
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Exploring new methodologies to identify disease-associated variants in African populations through the integration of patient genotype data and clinical phenotypes derived from routine health data: A case study for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in patients in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… through the integration of patient genotype data and clinical phenotypes derived from routine health data: A case study for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Abstract Introduction There is poor knowledge on the genetic drivers of disease in African …
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