Guest post from Juha Pajula from VTT How often are decisions made with gut feeling and why? Various digital records are collected from most of the population in modern digital […]
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The Evaluation of Healthcare Interventions and Public Health Decision Making: A Role for the MIDAS Platform
Guest Blog Post by Natasha L. Bloodworth and Dale Weston, Public Health England Public health interventions tend to be complex, context-dependent, and potentially costly (Rychetnik, Frommer, Hawe, & Shiell, 2002), […]
Mining MEDLINE for the Visualisation of a Global Perspective on Medical Research
A guest post by Joao Pita Costa from Quintelligence Fig 1 – Word cloud putting together several key concepts related with public health, and representing the data visualisation of text […]
The Data Is Out There
Guest post byProf. Minna Pikkarainen (University of Oulu & VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland) & Dr. Marika Iivari (University of Oulu) In Midas the target is to build a […]
Factors linked to Integration Evaluation & Impact Assessment of the European-based (Horizon 2020) MIDAS Project
Guest post by Dr. Justin Connolly from Dublin City University The overall purpose of the MIDAS project is to develop a software-based or digital platform for healthcare policy makers that will enable […]
Initial data quality tools development for the data source loading and pre-processing
Guest post by Dr Gorka Epelde from Vicomtech Within a data-driven decision-making context it is key to guarantee the quality of the data upon which decisions are made. In the […]
Patient trajectories: development of multimorbidity and polypharmacy over time
Guest Blog post by Marjan van den Akker, Academic Centre of General Practice, KU Leuven, Belgium. Multimorbidity – the co-occurrence of two or more chronic diseases(1) – and polypharmacy – […]
MIDAS Project to be presented at Big Data Europe: 3rd Workshop on Big Data in Health
Dr Michaela Black has been invited to present a keynote about the MIDAS Project at the Big Data Europe: 3rd Workshop on Big Data in Health event in Brussels. More […]
European Project Partners Meet in Belfast to Discuss Big Data and Healthcare
Photo: The MIDAS Consortium Academics, policy makers, business people and healthcare professionals met in Belfast last week as part of the European Union Horizon 2020 MIDAS project to deliver a […]
Challenges of Data Anonymisation vs. Use of De-identified Data
Guest Post by Antti Tuomi-Nikula (THL) and Juha Pajula (VTT) Of all data in the world, personal health data can perhaps be seen as one of the most sensitive. Medical […]