Health Data

A long time ago, every mobile phone used its own unique charging port design. Even two different Nokia models (yes.. that old) would refuse to breathe electrons using the same charging pin. And now almost every phone — save Apple — uses USB C. While it does take the uniqueness…

The COVID-19 dataset Global.health has great promise, but is badly flawed. Its data is old and low quality. — Summary The COVID-19 dataset Global.health (G.h) began almost three years ago with great promise. It is funded by Google.org, Rockefeller Foundation, Boston Children’s Hospital and others, with academic support from University of Oxford, Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School and others. Its salient feature is individual person-level data for COVID-19 cases worldwide…

Health data is more crucial than ever in our fast-paced, rapidly evolving world. But the current health data landscape is plagued with problems like isolated data silos, interoperability issues, data breaches, and a lack of security and control for individuals. The result is a fragmented, disjointed system that leaves patients…

A Guide for Extracting Health Level 7 Data with python-hl7 — Parsing HL7 messages is an essential task for many data professionals in the healthcare space. HL7 is commonly used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to exchange patient data between different systems, applications, and providers. According to Wikipedia, HL7 or Health Level 7 “refers to a set of international standards…

The future of health is an ever-evolving field that is constantly innovating and adapting to new challenges. As we move forward, there are three key areas that will have a significant impact on the way we approach healthcare: technology, data, and prevention.

Health care research has been increasingly international & data intensive. Everything from genomic research to adverse drug reaction testing to epidemiology depends on the collection, linkage, & analysis of diverse patient indicators & disease features. …

Introduction The global blood testing market size has been valued at USD 73.9 billion in 2020. Fuelled by the growing medical spending by the government and regulatory bodies, this is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.3% from 2021 to 2028. In addition, Government and key…

This is how ChatGPT3 fared against the esoteric world of impossible healthcare questions — Admittedly, I’m biased. Not just in the many areas of healthcare bias that I’ve described before, but also in the sense where I believe healthcare is the most challenging and unique industry to work in. …

My new project explores how Black health experts develop and deploy trust in their efforts to solve health disparities. While researchers have explored why Black communities mistrust the healthcare system, there has been far less attention paid to the data that inform healthcare decisions about these communities, and whether it…