The investigation of public Web searches allows us to expand the boundaries of public health research. We call this tool infodemiology. This portmanteau of informatics and epidemiology can be defined ...
One in every 500 people has Parkinson’s disease, which equates to 10 million people globally with the condition. Patients often have infrequent contact with their doctors, so large gaps exist ...
The Safer Deliveries programme: a digital platform to help pregnant women in Zanzibar deliver safely
Despite comparatively good access to health facilities and high rates of antenatal care, over half of deliveries in Zanzibar occur at home. Safer Deliveries, a programme designed and implemented by ...
Economic evaluations of health technologies, often known as health technology assessments (HTA), are notable decision making tools used to help allocate scarce health care resources more efficiently. In the UK ...
It is often said that we are amidst a ‘data revolution’. With more data being generated than ever before, there is great potential for data analytics to transform clinical care, ...
Generation of digital data has expanded exponentially over the last decade, inspiring visions of data-driven healthcare and precision medicine. But the promise of big data is tempered by today’s reality ...
This blog post was written by Manjinder Sandhu and Elizabeth Young Electronic health records (EHRs) can produce invaluable data to inform health care decisions and national and regional health planning. ...
This blog post was written by Cristina Pomilla, Deepti Gurdasani, Martin Pollard and Tommy Carstensen The advent of low-cost sequencing has provided a deeper understanding of the role human genetic ...
Globally, 3.2 million deaths per year can be directly attributed to insufficient levels of physical activity. As a result, it is one of the top ten leading risk factors for ...
I recently returned from a five-week deployment in Sierra Leone working on the Health Information System of a large Ebola treatment centre. My role was to support clinicians working in ...