Guest post by Julius Francis Gomes and Elina Hyrkäs (from Martti Ahtisaari Institute, University of Oulu), Jarmo Pääkkönen (from Centre for Health and Technology, University of Oulu) and Peter Poliwoda […]
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Internet Mediated Research: Ethics and Consent in the Digital Age
Guest blog post by Dale Weston from Public Health England Traditional research in the behavioural sciences has involved the recruitment of members of the public to participate, face to face […]
News and biomedical knowledge complementing the workflow of the public health practitioner
A guest post by J. Pita Costa, L. Stopar, F. Fuart from Quintelligence The growing challenges and opportunities of Public Health institutions in the era of Big Data reveal needs […]
MIDAS Common metadata model and data harmonisation approach
Guest post by Gorka Epelde (Vicomtech) and Jaakko Lähteenmäki (VTT) In a previous blog post, we introduced the data ingestion methodology for individual datasets, and shortly introduced datasets description with […]
Tools to Simulate Impact and Outcomes of Health Policy Decisions
A guest post by Xi Shi from KU Leuven Nowadays, people’s working style has been changed disruptively by the rapid development of Internet technology. With the establishment of electronic administrative […]
MIDAS Implementation: The Importance of Organisational Readiness for Change
Guest blog post by Justin Connolly, Dublin City University The concept of organizational readiness has received increasing attention from the research community in recent years. It refers to ‘the extent […]
Evaluating the Usability of the MIDAS Platform
A guest post by Brian Cleland from Ulster University A key focus of the MIDAS Project is ensuring that the information delivered by the MIDAS platform is relevant and actionable, […]
Data anonymisation: Finding the midway between accurate and aggregated data
Guest blog post by Sangita Kulathinal and Antti Tuomi-Nikula, THL Finland provides pilot data from a cohort study under which a group of subjects are followed up for a specific […]
Integrating Multisector Data Benefits Individuals with Behavioral Health Disorders
Guest blog post by George Runger of Arizona State University It is already well understood that a major barrier to improving health, well-being and equity in the United States is […]
Keeping up with Social Media Platform Changes
Guest post by Gordon Doyle, Senior Software Developer, IBM Ireland Ltd As discussed in our previous blog post “Improving surveys with chatbots” (http://www.midasproject.eu/2018/05/25/improving-surveys-with-chatbots/), we built a chatbot and a social media […]